Posts Tagged ‘light bulbs’

Environmental Defense: Why Today’s CFLs Are So Much Better

By Erica Rowell, Environmental Defense Writer, Editor, ProducerCFL and incandescent bulbs side by sideCFL 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: The Pied Piper of CFLs

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.

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