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How can a good breakfast make us less energy-dependent? If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil each week.
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You probably know by now that changing your regular incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent ones are a bright idea: You end up using 75% less energy. Lighting accounts for about 20% of the electricity used in the U.S., so if every American home replaced just one bulb, enough energy would be saved to light 3 million homes a year, preventing more than 800,000 cars' worth of global-warming gases from being released. Factors that might dim the picture? CFLs are bulky and ugly, they flicker and buzz, and cast a harsh shade of light…right? Wrong. Our testers discovered (after trying over 75 different CFLs) the opposite to be the case. Thanks to new technology, today's fluorescent bulbs share little in common with awful office lighting of decades past. Click on our slideshow to learn more about our favorite CFLs for lighting every corner of your home, and on this Sprig List for three quick smart tips for buying them.
Jacob Krupnick
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