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CFL’s vs. LED’s. Which way do you go with your lightbulbs???
Saturday, 13 Dec, 2008 – 18:41 | Comments
CFL’s vs. LED’s.  Which way do you go with your lightbulbs???

CFL’s are gradually losing favor to LED’s as the energy saving bulb of the future, even with companies like GE ramping up production of CFL’s. In the video above Hank Green of ecogeek.org does …

Gernerate electricity with a spinning wheel deigned after Ghandi’s wheel.
Tuesday, 23 Sep, 2008 – 12:42 | Comments
Gernerate electricity with a spinning wheel deigned after Ghandi’s wheel.

I thought this was a pretty interesting post over at clean technica. The e-charkha is a spinning wheel that generates electricity and was designed to mimic the wheel used by Gandhi.

From the PressTV article:
The …

Move over CFL’s, here come the LED’s!
Monday, 28 Jul, 2008 – 19:50 | Comments

Just as we get rolling with decent ways to recycle our old CFL bulbs LED’s start moving into the market en masse. I find this news from Grist, via The New York Times, to …

Home Depot Launches CFL Recycling Program
Tuesday, 24 Jun, 2008 – 7:51 | Comments

Don’t throw out those CFL’s folks!
Home Depot announced today that they have launched a recycling program for compact Florescent bulbs at all 1,973 stores nationwide. According to the press release this free service is …

One Billion Bulbs, How many can you add?
Monday, 26 Nov, 2007 – 15:22 | Comments
One Billion Bulbs, How many can you add?

First, welcome back to everyone who, like me, took the Holiday off. I hope it was as wonderful as mine. I did stay away from the stores on Black Friday and I am …

Pure Waste Challenge Revisited.
Tuesday, 20 Nov, 2007 – 18:40 | Comments

(This post is a bit long so please stick with me and read it through….)
A while back I posted about the Pure Waste Challenge. This is where the Hinkle Charitable Foundation is asking people …

LED street lights are taking hold!
Friday, 19 Oct, 2007 – 7:49 | Comments

This is a technology that I am very excited to see arriving to the mainstream. I like my CFL’s, but am concerned about the mercury pollution when you are through with them and the …