Okay, I have to throw my 2 cents into this one...
I find it ironic that duing the 70's fluorescent light bulbs were the bane of all greenies, and now everyone wants you to use them. But don't throw them away - in my town you actually have to take them to the hazerdous waste disposal (HA! like anyone does that) to avoid MORE mercury contamination in the water/ground. One of our local news stations came on to point out the proper way to dispose of one, God forbid you accidentally break one (clear the room for 15 minutes then dispose of anything that comes in contact with them).
And in Maine? -
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ulbs-dangerous
"Get all the people and pets out of the room for 15 minutes and let the room air out. If you have a central heating system or an HVAC [heating, ventilating and air-conditioning] system, you don't want it sucking the fumes around, so shut that down."
http://maine.gov/dep/rwm/homeowner/cflbreakcleanup.htm
"•When a break happens on carpeting, homeowners may consider removing throw rugs or the area of carpet where the breakage occurred as a precaution, particularly if the rug is in an area frequented by infants, small children or pregnant women."
Save a few cents a month on energy, but endanger your family in thr process.
In the end most greenies are just simply antihuman (not that I can totally knock them for that).
In New Zealand while I was living there, they wanted to put up wind farms - but the greenies didn't want to "destroy" the enviornment by putting up the wind mills so they protested even THAT.
Penn and Teller did a gag at an environmental march protesting Dihydrogen Monoxide (H20), rather funny, but pointed out the level of genius of those involved. Quite a few people signed their petitions...
Even the founder of Green Peace Patrick Moore left for some rather nasty reasons. Now he comes out for PVC/Vinyl, Nuclear Energy and so on.
In as much as I feel like we have a detrimental effect on the enviornment, I feel that the current movement is a fad and money grabbing opportunity, and for the most part run by jackholes who only half know what they are talking about. Heck some of the simplest things could resolve a lot of our problems (painting roofs white for example). Bio-deisel drives up corn costs, which drive up food costs, the cost of a "green" vehicle would take you almost 20 years to break even on the savings, I could go on, but most of the stuff being crammed down our throats is sort of making me a sickly shade of green. Again, I appreciate the need for alternatives, but it seems to me we are just making things worse at this point. Take a breath (unless you broke a bulb), step back, come up with better solutions, then act.
Sorry, was just my quick little rant...