Environmental Defense: Why Today’s CFLs Are So Much Better
By Erica Rowell, Environmental Defense Writer, Editor, Producer
CFL and incandescent bulbs side by side
Quality was spotty in the 70s, but this is a new millennium
Apple computers. Punk. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). What do they have in common? They were introduced in the 1970s and are now back in style.
CFLs have improved dramatically from their inauspicious beginnings. They took a while to come on, flickered as they
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Kenny Luna is the Pied Piper of light bulbs. CFL bulbs, specifically, and he's working his tail off to see to it that every kid in America gets one in their home. Luna is a middle school science teacher from North Babylon, New York, who was so moved by Hurricane Katrina, its devastating aftermath, and connection to global warming, that he decided he had to do something, anything, to fight climate change. 
