Fixing everything, really slowly

Aaron Cohen

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Following on from Australia’s pledge to phase out the usage of incandescent bulbs, the 27 leaders of the European Union have decided that all member states will have to use energy efficient lighting before 2010 (yes, that’s just 3 years away). The switchover, which will affect all of the EU’s 470 million+ citizens, was developed with the aim of meeting targets to reduce energy usage by 20 percent by 2020: to that end, a commission will be accepting proposals for enabling the switchover “for office and street lighting to be adopted by 2008 and on incandescent lamps and other forms of lighting in private households by 2009.”

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Great to see that the low hanging fruit is finally being plucked. Aaron’s blog is well worth reading if you are interested in the enviroment and a perspective of what my employer (Sun Microsystems) is doing about energy efficiency.

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