This story will let everyone help change the world in about 18 seconds. Well, OK. Truth is you might have to run to the store to get the new bulbs and that might add a bit of time. But if you are going to the store anyways, pick up one of these new bulbs.
There is a new website out there wanting everyone to put at least one new CFL (Compact Flourescent Lightbulb) into their homes. If everyone replaced one bulb, it would "collectively save more than $8 billion in energy costs, prevent the burning of 30 billion pounds of coal and keep 2 million cars' worth of greenhouse gas emissions from being released into the atmosphere."
Now that is kind of cool. And easy. Check out the site at 18Seconds.org About 8 employees from Yahoo were realeased from their job and given a sabattical to put the project together. See how your state is doing, and next time you're at the store, pick up an updated, effecient box of bulbs for the house.
(Image found at this location: http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2007/feb/cfl/cflstandard.jpg)
