Bright Idea

A front page story in The Japan Times covered the first national ban of traditional incandescent bulbs, the kind tested by Edison in 1897 and which has been the standard ever since. The country to ban the bulb, in exchange for the more-efficient compact fluorescent bulb (CF bulbs), is not the U.S. but Australia. The aim is to phase out incandescent bulbs by 2010, which will cut Australia's GHG emissions by 4 million tons by 2015.

The Aussies aren't the only one's taking this small, but significant, step as California and New Jersey legislators are also following up on this very "bright idea".



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