Poll Results: CFLs

The results of our latest poll is in. In the question, How many compact fluorescent light bulbs are you using in your home?, almost everyone is using at least one. It seems I may be preaching to the choir here.

As I've mentioned before, using CFLs in your home instead of regular light bulbs, is probably the #1 easiest thing you can do to reduce your energy usage.

I'd love to hear your comments on these bulbs, your experience, and if you use them in your home.

Two green blogs, City Hippy and Jen's Green Journal, are sponsoring a related campaign for the holiday season. It is called Christmas Lights, though I am p/c inclined to change it to Holiday Lights.

Here's how it works. These bloggers want to encourage everyone to make the switch over to CFLs. In order to do so, they are asking people to pledge that they will give a CFL bulb to every person they give a gift to this holiday season. This could be in addition to a regular gift, or you could make it the gift itself!

See more details over at City Hippy and Jen's Green Journal.

What do you think of this campaign? Will you pledge to buy CFLs for family and friends this holiday season? I did!

Comments

[Dayngr]

What a great idea!

[Al]

Thanks for joining in Rebecca

Namaste

Al

ps Christmas Lights is just searched for more so figured it would be found more often...

[Jennifer Killpack-Knutsen]

We now have a printable CFL facts/gift card that folks can use with their CFL gifts:
http://www.taraluna.com/learn/cfl%20card2.pdf

[V]

I would like to say I am all for the idea of using CFL's but there also needs to be a movement for proper disposal of these bulbs. A small number of cities around the country have recycling programs for cfl's but Miami doesn't. The only thing we can all do is put them in two plastic ziploc bags to ensure that if they break the mecury doesn't contaminate. If there is a recycling program please let me know. If I am not mistaken I believe IKEA takes them but that is quite a distance for me to drive.