Living With Fluorescent Light (or No Light) - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog

Living With Fluorescent Light (or No Light) - Dot Earth - Climate Change and Sustainability - New York Times Blog: "Julie Scelfo, a reporter for our Home section, recently sent me a note saying she was eager to hear about people’s experiences with compact fluorescent bulbs and other low-energy lighting. I put up a post and Dot Earth readers responded in droves with comments about their good, bad, and ugly experiences. There is a strong sense that these bulbs are a transitional technology, but that lighting will be less and less of a drain on the grid after a century of incandescent convenience.Her story, drawing on the experiences of many Dot Earthers, is online here, and you can see photographs of four of your peers from Dot Earth in a slide show describing homeowners’ experiences with low-energy technology. One thing I’ll be focused on this year is the lack of any lighting, or electricity for that matter, for about a third of the world’s population. Nowhere are the benefits of the lighting that developed countries take for granted more achingly on display than in a recent post at The Lede blog by Patrick Lyons, which focused on an Associated Press story and photograph from Conakry, Guinea — where kids were gathered like moths around streetlights in an airport parking lot to do their homework."


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