How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One.

Chopper and I recently took the plunge and replaced almost all of the light bulbs in our house with slightly-odd looking compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs.  They don’t burn hot, use less energy, and last for years.  I spotted an article via Slashdot from FastCompany.com about the very real impact we can have with just one of these bulbs per household:

“What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people. One bulb swapped out, enough electricity saved to power all the homes in Delaware and Rhode Island. In terms of oil not burned, or greenhouse gases not exhausted into the atmosphere, one bulb is equivalent to taking 1.3 million cars off the roads.”

That’s an impact, with no more effort than screwing in a light bulb.