The article discusses the increasing severity of forest fires due to climate change, particularly in the West. It highlights the economic and health risks associated with drought-induced fires, citing past destructive seasons. The main solution is reducing fossil fuel emissions, conserving water, and preparing for future challenges posed by drought and wildfires.
If you want to save money switch to LED lighting, insulate your home and buy energy-efficient appliances. If you want to keep carbon dioxide out of the air the single biggest thing you can do is switch to alternative energy. That’s the “shocking truth”. Why shocking? Because no other single thing you do as an individual will have as big an impact on climate change. In this post you will see the huge impact you can make by switching to alternative energy and how to get it for your home. You can save money, prevent carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, and… Read More »The shocking truth about alternative energy!
We recently learned that one LED light can save you money and cut your CO2 emissions. Question is… what happens if we replace ALL the lights in our house with LED lights? Glad you asked. I calculated a few numbers for you and put the results into some handy tables and graphs. But first, a little bit of background info is required. According to an interesting blog post by a lighting company in Florida, the average house has 47 light bulbs. So we’ll look at numbers for three different sized houses: a small house or apartment (24 bulbs), a typical family home (47 bulbs),… Read More »The shocking truth about LED lights!
I remember responding to a reader comment left in an article about the phasing out of compact fluorescent lights (CFL) due to their mercury content. The commenter was saying how the government shouldn’t regulate the market and tell him that he can’t use CFL bulbs. He likes the light from his CFLs and thinks they’re just fine. I don’t entirely disagree, but I think the irony was lost on him because incandescent bulb production was phased out in 2014 by — you guessed it — “the government”. Maybe he was a youngster, not old and grizzled like the Doc. Anyhow, it struck me as… Read More »How to Save a LOT of Money While Saving the Environment (Hint: Use LED lights!)