Introduction To Lighting

Overview

• Why should I change bulbs - can it make a difference?
• Aren't there a number of issues such as color, mercury?
• What if some is (not me of course) too lazy ?
• Even lights bulbs can be overwhelming because there are so many different shapes and sizes, and I also hear about LED lights
• Where can I find the bulbs I need?

People and groups/communities changing light bulbs:

• OBB and Energy Trek
• Schools and Communities
• Blogger Communities

Reference Information:

• Library - Legislation

Introduction

Changing your lighting is one of the easiest ways to improve energy conservation both in your home and in the world.

Do you know that in the United States if every household changed 1 light bulb to an energy efficient bulb that would equivalent to taking 2.0 million cars off of the roads - from an energy point of view !!!

So - if all you ever do is just change one light bulb - that would be great! - Of course we'd like to urge you to do more. 

Do you know that in the United States if every household changed 1 light bulb to an energy efficient bulb that would equivalent to taking 2.0 million cars off of the roads - from an energy point of view !!!

So - if all you ever do is just change one light bulb - that would be great! - Of course we'd like to urge you to do more. 

Lighting: Important Background Information

Here are the key issues you need to know about lighting.

This lighting roadmap is a plan of how to organize different types of lighting activities into basic, intermediate, advanced, and extreme energy trekking phases.

Of course this is not really a science , there will be different opinion on this - and we want your opinions and advice as we all figure this out. There will be surveys in which we will ask you how your recommend we define this list!