last weekend we had earthhour. the local news reported that the city i live in saved 3% in energy usage.

3%

i’ll go out on a limb and say that’s about the same percentage of people who actually cared about earthhour.

personally i think the idea of saving the planet is a good one. but we have to be smart about it. here are some of the dumb things that are being done.

“earth saver” light bulbs. the first type were 52 watt incandescent replacements for the standard 60 watts. only problem was they didn’t last very long, so that meant more they were adopted by the general public the more ended up in landfill. i wonder tho the edison wannabe was that came up with that one.

now we have those curly tube fluorescent bulbs. these aren’t saving the earth either. first off they don’t last as long as those 60 watters did. AND they have mercury in the ballast. the inventor of this particular gem was even dimmer than the the previous guy.

and they keep pushing these stupid things in commercials.

the worse part is that you can’t even rely on regular 60 watt lightbulbs anymore. they seem to have a lifespan under regular use between 3 and 6 month.

earthhour once year isn’t going to help. make it once a week and it might make a difference…especially if you start adding up all he ose 3% savings.

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