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Though CFL bulbs expend only one-fourth the energy of their incandescent counterparts, they also contain trace amounts of toxic mercury. According to Wofsy, the 5 milligrams of mercury per bulb “doesn’t sound like much, but it adds...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shedding Light on CFL Usage | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...also says that publicity about CFL bulb use and disposal is more deficient for freshmen, both because of the low ratio of reps (3) to freshman dorms (16), and because recycling is less centralized...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shedding Light on CFL Usage | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...late real-estate mogul Seymour Durst first erected the clock on Feb. 20, 1989 to call attention to the consequences of Reaganomics. At the time, the country had a national debt of $2.7 trillion. The original 25-foot-wide, 1,500-pound, 306-bulb sign cost more than $120,000 to create and install. (It now costs more than $500 a month to operate and maintain the light bulbs). Durst told reporters he had no plans to ever remove the clock. "It'll be up as long as the debt or the city lasts," he said, adding, "If it bothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Times Square Debt Clock | 10/14/2008 | See Source »

...Silverman, was behind the successful importation of The Office and Ugly Betty. Kath and Kim, though, shows that, as with Vegemite, not all flavors are so easily translated. The premise is the same as the original: single fortysomething Kath (Molly Shannon) has her life disrupted when her dim-bulb daughter Kim (Selma Blair) leaves her husband and shows up at Kath's doorstep. Like the British Absolutely Fabulous, it's a comedy of grotesques; Kath is a clueless ninny, Kim a crass, inarticulate walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...expended talking about climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions continue, at a rate of about 70 million tons a day. The gap between the scale of the threat posed by global warming - it is potentially civilization-altering - and the solutions so far proposed - change a light bulb - are obvious and disheartening. Gore realized that back in December. "We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis," he said. "Our policies have to shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Bold, Unrealistic Plan to Save the Planet | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

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