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20 April 2007

Free CFLs! [More:]
Home Depot's giving away free Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs this Sunday. Get a few and save a couple bucks along with the environment!
heh, of course around here Home Depot came a few years ago and to build a store they tore down a couple dozen acres of forest, blasted a road (not a driveway mind you) trough a hillside where there was none before, added significantly to the strip mall effect where it built, all in defiance of a non-binding city resolution asking that the land they used not be developed, but you know they care about the environment and stuff.

(sorry, I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but that whole episode left a bad taste in my mouth re: Home Despot, plus a certain cynical part of me thinks this is a PR campaign because of the horrible drubbing HD has taken in the press the pass year or so)
posted by edgeways 20 April | 21:21
All our lights are CFL's. Have been for more than 10 years. Less heat and less power consumption. What's not to love.

But I hear what you are saying about HD.
posted by arse_hat 20 April | 22:52
er, yeah that wasn't aimed at CFLs, 95% of what we use are those, about once a year in MN the power company subsidizes the purchase price and you can get them for ` $1 - $3 a bulb at the local hardware store, bee's knees and cat's pajamas
posted by edgeways 21 April | 00:22
Did you know ....
* A CFL saves the equivalent of 1/10 a gallon of gas
* Driving to Home Depot requires 1/10 a gallon of gas

This has been another edition of Did you know ....!
posted by stilicho 21 April | 15:34
Nic Cage's new movie is called "Next." As in: "Nic Cage has a new movie? Next!" || Weekend plans. Discuss.

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