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BanTheBulb.org promotes energy efficient lighting, but neglects LED lights Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Energy saving is an essential part of the EU's strategy to reduce CO2 emissions, but 80 percent of home lighting today uses highly inefficient incandescent bulbs that convert only five percent of the energy they consume into light. This month, "at an EU conference hosted by Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the European Union's leaders announced their intention to ban incandescent light bulbs, for the 490 million people living within the EU's 27 countries, by 2010," according to the website.

Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan See book keywords and concepts

Simply improving home lighting may help make the visions disappear. Interestingly, when some people with deteriorating eyesight become totally blind they no longer "see" the phantom visions. When phantom visions occur in people with normal eyesight, it can signal Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, stroke, or another neurological condition. Unfortunately, people who experience phantom visions are often hesitant to tell their doctors because of fear of being labeled psychotic, demented, or drug-addicted.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

If we want to make our home lighting as bright green as possible, we can purchase sustainable products—fixtures made from recycled glass, aluminum, and wood in small-run production; chandeliers made from wine glasses rather than from those tinkling crystal pieces; lamps made from repurposed products, such as recycled chopsticks. We can also be sure to outfit all of our fixtures with compact fluorescent bulbs, which are much more efficient than incandescents because they don't use heat (much of which gets wasted) to produce their light. According to Energy Star, if every U.S.

Light-emitting Diodes ¦BR Compact fluorescent bulbs are currently the best choice for efficient home lighting (unless we're willing to outfit our homes with office-style big-tube fluorescents), but LEDs may soon outshine them. Light-emitting diodes give off light when electrons in a semiconductor oscillate. Unlike ordinary bulbs, they don't have filaments (the part that burns out easily), nor do they get hot like incandescents do. Plus, LEDs last far longer than standard bulbs, sometimes up to 100,000 hours.

The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living Linda Mason Hunter See book keywords and concepts

Halogen lights are new to the home lighting scene. These are the small, bright bulbs used in modern, high-tech fixtures. They are desirable for their bright white light, which is closer to daylight than the other bulbs. A single 250-watt tungsten-halogen tube is powerful enough to provide indirect background lighting in an average-sized room, provided that walls and ceilings are white or pale colored. Although more expensive to buy and run, halogen bulbs last longer than incandescents.

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