In the race to finding the greenest way to illuminate our nights, a new company has come up with a new refinement of old technology to serve our needs. Will it be enough to save you even more money? F...
We love this lamp from the Museum of Modern Art for the cheeky little way it makes tech feel cozy and cute. Never before has a compact fluorescent light bulb seemed so much like an intentional part of...
With everyone so concerned about both money and the environment, we're all making the effort to cut back on our home's energy use and slim down those utility bills. But even better than shutting off u...
President Obama is not only having Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu manage the replacement of bulbs in the White House to more energy efficient models, but has also announced he's shaping a nationa...
This ultra-modern lamp, the result of a quick DIY project, is actually made from a household tool you might keep in your cleaning closet. Can you spot the re-purposed piece?...
We've talked a lot recently about the LED bulb revolution (here and here) and the fact that they're likely to replace CFLs as the go-to green bulb. We've also noticed in the Comments that many of yo...
A few years back when CFL bulbs first came out onto the scene and the media and eco-proponents were pushing the public to adopt the energy efficient lighting solutions, many people balked due to a cre...
In the debate over whether compact flourescent lights (CFLs) or light emitting diodes (LEDs) are going to join Betamax and HD DVDs in the up-and-coming technology graveyard, opponents of LEDs for norm...
Unplggd reader TheGreenCat writes in with a lighting question: I've got a cheap touch lamp with 2 bulbs in it. This is a generic on/off lamp and not one that is dimmable or has several levels. A fe...
Personally, even if we weren't already fans of CFL bulbs (9 of the 10 bulbs in our house are CFLs), we'd be partial to use a CFL bulb for the soft serve effect with these waffle cone and ice cream con...
Compact flourescent lamps, or CFLs as we've come to call them, have been gaining ground on the old standby incandescent bulbs for a while now. Something about using less energy and saving money on ele...
We're pretty much incandescent bulb free in our household (we have one small 20 watt bulb inside a Tom Dixon Jack Floor lamp and one 30 watt chandelier bulb installed in a decorative overhead lamp for...
The Apartment Therapy family, as a whole, really cares about the environment. We can’t go a day without one or twelve eco-friendly posts. So it’s good to know that Olympians care as much about ene...
One of the criticisms about CFL bulbs beside light quality has been the issue about the minute amounts of mercury contained within each bulb. Last week at the 2008 National Hardware Show, Megalight an...
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