First Steps
Don't get depressed about global warming. Do something about it. This is the first entry in a series. Let's start with something anyone can do - change a light bulb. No, really, this is important....
View ArticleChristmas Lights ... Scrooge or Savior?
Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or ...) lights? Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I...
View ArticleShare your experience with CF lights (+ poll)
There's a push on, privately and publicly, to persuade Americans to replace at least one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light (CFL) fixture. For starters. But that task isn't always...
View ArticleWalmart ... lighting a revolution for energy efficiency use?
As discussed prominently in the New York Times, Walmart has committed to pushing aggressively for sales of compact fluorescent lightbulb sales in its stores, targeting a doubling of CFL sales of from...
View ArticleIncandescent Light Bulbs: To Ban or Not to Ban, That is NOW the Question
As I picked up over at Ecotality, a Californa Assemblyman will soon introduce a bill to ban the sale of incandescent lightbulbs by 2012. "Incandescent lightbulbs were first developed almost 125 years...
View ArticleLED There Be Light; In about 3 years
You've probably heard about Solid State Lighting; Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). You may already know that you can buy inexpensive LED flashlights which have very long run-times (got $10 to spare? How...
View ArticleA [compact flourescent] light bulb moment: encouraging conservation through...
Like probably all Kossacks, I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking of ways to influence the people within my circle to change their mindsets and behaviors regarding the various pressing issues...
View ArticleForget the CFL? Raleigh going all LED
According to the Department of Energy, just about 22% of US electrical use goes to lighting. And, satellite images showing so much of America lit up like an overloaded Christmas tree are just one...
View ArticleSo, do you like the CFL ? ( trick question about lightbulbs)
Of course you like the Canadian Football League. What's not to like, that's where the Saskatchewan RoughRiders play. And their colours are green and white ( or green and black, sometimes ). And we...
View ArticleAn even better lightbulb
OK, we've all heard about compact fluorescent bulbs, and I, for one, am using a lot of them. They use less energy than incandescent light bulbs, and they last longer (at least when they're well made)....
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Christmas lights: melting away White Christmas?
Oh, Christmas Eve, the beautiful lights on the streets, glowing above the snow ... scratch that, lighting up the soggy ground, with inflatable reindeer merry-go-rounds, mangers, flashing light...
View ArticleGreen Question from Matt
Our boss at work is telling us to turn the lights off every night, to save energy. But often people don't take the time to turn off the lights. I told him he should buy an electronic timer to turn the...
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Making Energy Cents: From the Home to the Globe, and back
Energy has become an ever-more central part of my life: personal, intellectual, and professional. This ranges from working with the Energize America team, to serving on the Board of The Energy...
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Getting to Energy Smart: Calculating the Financial Benefits of Compact...
We have all become armored against advertising and the claims of "save $26" (or more) on a CFL package are hard to believe. In addition, in our culture, we focus on the cost to buy (CTB) rather than...
View ArticleEnergy Conservation Tips for Lighting - Please Share Yours
The importance of saving energy can’t be emphasized enough. The planet is really in peril. If that doesn’t move you, perhaps you’ll care that energy relates to our national security (or your national...
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Christmas Lights ... scrooge or savior? (Revisited 2) ...
Do you love those displays of Christmas (or Hannukah or Kwanza or ...) lights? Are you awed by those so impassioned that they string up 1000s of lights in awesome displays worthy of a city center? I...
View ArticleGW -- 6 -- Life style for low CO2 emission.
If we are going to lower our CO2 emissions, then we have to alter technology, lifestyle, or both. I've argued earlier that any plausible change in technology will result in changes of CO2 emission...
View ArticleHoliday Hubris
The festival of light pollution that we call the holidays is upon us once again, which means its time for me to step up on my soapbox and prepare to duck the rotten eggs, tomatoes and shoes which are...
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Energy HOME: Lighting a way forward?
Every day, I strive to Make Energy CENTS from the Home to the Globe. Whether programming the thermostat to low temperatures overnight to providing comments on national energy policy drafts to opening...
View ArticleElectric energy and lighting- a reprise/update
Way back when I was just a pup, I did a series of diaries on energy and lighting. That was when oil was in the $50's, Obama was an unknown senator who we only heard about from NPR's "Wait, Wait don't...
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