The U.S. Congress has enacted various legislation and regulations intended to encourage energy savings. Some of the better known programs are the EPA’s Energy Star program, and the DoE’s Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products. In some cases, though, poorly thought out legislation or regulations may backfire.
Last night I decided to buy a [...]

In my workplace, half of the men’s restrooms were recently closed for some sort of remodeling, and after that was completed, the other half have been closed. I finally found out why: they’ve installed Falcon 2000 Waterfree Urinals. While saving water is obviously beneficial, intuitively a waterfree urinal seems like a bad [...]

(updated May 2) WorldNetDaily reported on prefessional cleanup of a broken CFL costing Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine over $2000 (h/t Slashdot). Thanks to Hans Pufal for posting a comment referencing an article with a link to the EPA fact sheet on mercury in CFLs. It turns out that CFLs contain less [...]

Lore Sjöberg offers a cunning plan for improving other areas of our lives. [h/t Steve]