Those Bulbs Keep Getting Banned
We love CBC Indepth web reports. It’s true. We can’t deny it. We link to them all the time. And here’s the latest.
The Ontario government announced yesterday it will ban the sale of the old incandescent bulbs by 2012 in a bid to help curb global warming. The province said that replacing all the roughly 87 million incandescent bulbs in Ontario homes with compact fluorescents or other efficient lighting could cut electricity demand by six million megawatt hours over the course of a year, enough to power 600,000 households. In making the move, Ontario is following the lead of Australia, which earlier this year became the first country to ban the venerable incandescent bulb. It intends to phase them out by 2010.
I guess we’ll avoid mentioning he whole mercury in CFL bulbs thing for the moment…
From the brightest bulb in the box to environmental dodo in just over a century — that’s what happens when the climate warms and the heat increases under the feet of certain politicians. Indeed, the push to ban the old bulb is gaining steam.
Nathan was thinking green at 8:06 AM on April 19, 2007
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