A few months ago I wrote a post called “The FYI on CFL Recycling.” This post offered a few basic ideas on where and how to recycle compact fluorescent light bulbs, or CFLs. You want to recycle them because they contain trace amounts of mercury, which is considered to be hazardous waste. And hazardous waste [...]
Recently, my daughter did a science report on mercury (lower case, not the planet), the element whose periodic table abbreviation is Hg. As far as I knew mercury was just that silver liquid that appears in old-fashioned thermometers, but thanks to her report I learned that mercury also shows up in certain kinds of light [...]
We spent this afternoon stringing lights outside of our home to give it a festive look. While outside I replaced all of the burned-out bulbs in our exterior lights. These were some of the last to still have incandescent bulbs in them. Luckily, we’d recently stocked up on multi-packs of General Electric “Energy Smart” compact [...]
Donna Summer didn’t have it quite right when she sang “Dim all the lights, sweet darling,” in her 1979 disco hit called “Dim All The Lights” (though installing dimmers can significantly cut your energy use, so says the National Geographic Green Guide). No, if you really want to save money on your electric bills, you’ve [...]
Because I work from home, I spend a lot of time in my home office. Well, in theory I should be spending most of my time there, but since I still haven’t fully unpacked my office from our move in May, in reality I’ve been spending most of my work hours at the dining room [...]
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