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• Save money by replacing incandescent holiday lights with LED versions

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  If your holiday lights have seen better days , you might want to replace incandescent versions with more-efficient and more-durable LED lights . Our tests of mini, C7, and C9 holiday lights showed that while incandescent versions did burn more brightly than LEDs, the LEDs were much more durable, ran cooler and ...
  17 hours ago

• THE BULB BUBBLE SET TO BURST POCKETBOOKS

  
  The Two-Fisted Quorum — Authority: 108
  CALL IT GREENING RUN AMOK. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs—whether they wanted them or not. According to ...
  1 day ago

• You don’t need to understand this article to know you’ve been screwed again

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 154
  Remember when Congress banned freon to save us from the ozone hole? Turns out the replacement causes global warming [sic] so the switch is on again. result: still worse performance, still more expense and, naturally, yet another product to be banned in a few years when scientists discover what’s wrong with this one. ...
  6 days ago

• Paradise Cost: Hawaiis not a better place to live than West Virginia or North Dakota . . . at least when it comes to electricity prices

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  Cutting down on how much electricity you use at home is a good move for your finances and the environment. Some steps to using less energy are simple, like choosing energy-efficient appliances and using and maintaining them properly—read about the U.S. Department of Energys $300 million State Energy Efficient ...
  1 week ago

• Simple Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Jamie Jefferson In addition to recycling, reducing one’s carbon footprint has become one of the major ways that individuals can contribute to saving the planet, but the words "carbon footprint" are often thrown around without a clear explanation. A carbon footprint is a measure of how much our day to day ...
  1 week ago

• Dont Forget to Fall Back!

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 427
  Daylight Saving Time is ending this Saturday night. I guess the good news is that you get an extra hour to enjoy your post Trick-or-Treating candy coma. The bad news is that its going to be dark earlier and longer. Now is the perfect time to swap out those old incandescent bulbs for energy saving fluorescent ones! ...
  1 week ago

• F.T.C. Proposes New Light Bulb Label

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  The Federal Trade Commission introduced a proposed new consumer label for light bulbs -- a product category that is generating a lot of confusion.
  1 week ago

• Come out of the dark

  
  Bird on a Wire — Authority: 427
  Have you swapped out all of your bulbs? Have you disposed of them properly? By replacing your four most used bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, you can save almost $110 over the lifetime of the bulbs. When they burn out, you need to either dispose of them at the Hazardous Waste facility near Shelby Farms on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ohio Utility Ship Customers Energy-Efficient Bulbs, Plus a Huge Bill

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 631
  Call it greening run amok. Or, more likely, poor planning combined with petty penny pinching by a large corporation. FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility, sent two $3.50 energy-saving compact florescent light-bulbs (CFLs) to customers, and then charged them $21 for the bulbs — whether they wanted them or not.According to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just a Pinch of Salt

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 547
  Heh. The editorial in the Herald today is Uptake of fluorescent bulbs salt in Labour’s wounds . The editor gleefully tells us that 80% of households now have at least one energy-efficient fluorescent lightbulb. Apparently there was no need for the ill-conceived ban on incandescent light-bulbs that Labour tried to ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the era of the CFL and LEDs, looking back at Edison’s 1879 incandescent invention

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  Today marks the 130th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison’s invention of the first commercially viable incandescent lightbulb. (The image, from the National Archives, is from Edison’s patent application ; he received the patent in early 1880.) And while incandescents are still being improved upon to be more energy ...
  2 weeks ago

• By the Numbers: DOE Inspector General audit IDs Energy Star issues

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  90 percent Approximate percentage of compact fluorescent lightbulbs that qualify for the federal governments Energy Star, according to the recently released "The Departments Management of the Energy Star Program," an audit by the U.S. Department of Energys Inspector General . Energy Star, a joint program ...
  3 weeks ago

• Energy Star Report Shows C.F.L. Concerns

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 745
  A report from the inspector-general at the Department of Energy lays out a number of flaws in the Energy Star program, including the fact that nearly all compact fluorescent bulbs can acquire the Energy Star label.
  3 weeks ago

• Buzzword: Socket Saturation

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 501
  What it means. Socket saturation represents the number of lighting fixtures that use compact fluorescent lightbulbs in this country, according to the folks who run the federal governments Energy Star program . But the term is actually a misnomer: Although 70 percent of all U.S. homes have at least one CFL—the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009

  
  Southern California Office Real Estate Blog — Authority: 106
  Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products of 2009 Edited by Jodi Summers Not to be outdone by other trends, Sustainable Industries magazine has made their choicesfor the 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products. These industry-leading green building productswinners were selected by a panel of expert judges ...
  4 weeks ago

• Green Your Rental Pt. 1: Start with Changes You Can Make

  
  Green Your Decor — Authority: 121
  Photo by BastArd StarFiSh My husband and I have long dreamed of being homeowners with the means to renovate or modify our home to make it as green as possible. Alas, life had other plans for us, and we’re living in an apartment, at least for now. This comes with a bevy of limitations in terms of what we can do ...
  4 weeks ago

• Different Types of Hydroponics Lighting

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Rahul Shariff What does lighting got to do with the growth of plants? Do plants grow better under hydroponics lighting? Does the success rate increase with use of hydroponic lights? How does the system of growing plants benefit it? As all are aware the concept of hydroponic gardening is growing plants and crops ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twelve Practical Ways to Green-Up Your Autumn

  
  Lighter Footstep — Authority:
  The arrival of autumn means cooler temperatures, darker evenings — and a last chance to get your home ready for winter. Here are twelve ways to get started! If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you’ve probably already noticed the first hints of autumn: a blush of color in the leaves; earlier sunsets; and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Save the Light Bulb!

  
  Maine Lives Large — Authority: 121
  AUGUST 30, 2009, 7:19 P.M. ET By HOWARD M. BRANDSTON The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs by 2012-2014 in favor of compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs. Other countries around the world have passed similar legislation to ban most ...
  4 weeks ago

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