No brainer
From the NYT:
Switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbs sounds like one of those small things people do mostly just to make themselves feel better.
But consider this: according to the Earth Policy Institute, if the whole world were to make the switch, 270 500-megawatt coal-burning power plants could be closed. If the United States were to switch, it could close 80 plants (earth-policy.org).
Australia plans to phase out incandescents in favor of compact fluorescents by 2010; Canada by 2012. Environmental groups, along with Philips Lighting, are trying to get the United States to make the switch by 2016.
“Sometimes an idea seems almost too good to be true,” the institute’s president, Lester R. Brown, wrote at TreeHugger. “But this one is not” (treehugger.com).
Switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbs sounds like one of those small things people do mostly just to make themselves feel better.
But consider this: according to the Earth Policy Institute, if the whole world were to make the switch, 270 500-megawatt coal-burning power plants could be closed. If the United States were to switch, it could close 80 plants (earth-policy.org).
Australia plans to phase out incandescents in favor of compact fluorescents by 2010; Canada by 2012. Environmental groups, along with Philips Lighting, are trying to get the United States to make the switch by 2016.
“Sometimes an idea seems almost too good to be true,” the institute’s president, Lester R. Brown, wrote at TreeHugger. “But this one is not” (treehugger.com).
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