A lightbulb “suddenly burns out” and Rhett springs into green action, replacing the lightbulbs in our front room with CFLs. These things are great…they put out a beautiful white light and use 25-33% of the electricity of incandescent lights. Granted, they have mercury in them, but it’s not hard to work around that. They’re cheaper than LED lights and they really sip the electricity for what they do.

Some important links:

• Did you know consumers prefer CFL light? Really. Check out this Popular Mechanics study.
• What about the mercury content? Again, Popular Mechanics is there.
• Energy Star on CFLs, including proper disposal.
• Find a CFL recycling facility.
• CC Crane is pretty famous for LED lights, for the mercury-phobic.
• Check out the CFL Epidsode of Real World Green, our “distant cousin” green vlog.

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Tags: cfl, reduce, electricity, green lifestyle, green, environmentalism