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Balancing Environmental Impact – Household Lighting

Bob Peeples, PE, June 1st, 2007

During the life cycle of any product, the mining of the raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, storage, use, and ultimately disposal, have an effect on our environment. To determine the overall effect, an environmental life cycle assessment is used. Several environmental life cycle assessments on products are frequently debated, such as coffee cups, shopping bags, diapers and now electric ... read more

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Going Green Made Easy

Earth911, May 7th, 2007

How can you go green at home? Here are 10 simple steps to green up your life and change the planet. 1. Buy Only What You Need Plain and simple—don't over purchase. However, when buying items that you use daily or in large quantities, consider buying in bulk. You will save money and packaging. Consider splitting bulk purchases with neighbors or ... read more

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Green Tip: Recycling Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

Trey Granger, May 5th, 2007

Scottsdale, AZ—Public education and media campaigns have urged consumers to replace their incandescent light bulbs with the more energy efficient Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFL). Because CFLs are up to four times as energy efficient as the traditional incandescent bulb, switching to CFLs can both save the individual consumer money and reduce the amount of energy it takes to light a ... read more

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Facts About CFLs

Larry Cummings, April 17th, 2007

Sealed within the glass tubing of CFLs, is a very small amount of mercury. On average, CFLs contain four milligrams of mercury – about the same amount that would fit on the tip of a ballpoint pen. This may seem high to some, but keep in mind that old thermometers contained about 500 milligrams of mercury. Mercury  allows the bulb to be an efficient light source. ... read more

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Lighting and Energy Conservation

Larry Cummings, April 2nd, 2007

Indoor Lighting Tips Turn off the lights in any room you are not using and consider installing timers, photo cells, or occupancy sensors to reduce the amount of time your lights are on. Use task lighting; instead of brightly lighting an entire room, focus the light where you need it. For example, use fluorescent under-cabinet lighting for kitchen sinks and countertops under ... read more

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Wal-Mart to Host Fluorescent Light Bulb Collections

Mark Rappaport, April 1st, 2007

On Saturday, June 23, Wal-Mart stores, Supercenters and Sam’s Clubs across California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and the Tulsa, Oklahoma region will host a fluorescent light bulb recycling day. The recycling events will offer consumers a free and convenient opportunity to drop-off and recycle their used compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) and fluorescent tubes. The bulbs will be collected at ... read more

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