energy efficiency
Posted by jamie — 4 October 2007 at 3:43pm
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I had one of those meetings this morning where I was doodling on my notebook rather than listening as attentively as perhaps I should have been, but the words 'China', 'light' and 'bulbs' caught my attention. I started paying even more attention when I realised it related to the news that China will be phasing out incandescent bulbs in the next 10 years.
Posted by jamie — 3 October 2007 at 2:50pm
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Greenpeace campaigner Louise Molloy, light bulb inventor Tony Doyle and designer Jason Bruges, proud owners of an award for innovation (Photo: Philip Vile)
One more (slightly belated) piece of news from the 100% Design exhibition comes in the form of an award. The light bulb used in Jason Bruges' installation has been given the inaugural award for innovative lighting design by the event's organisers, recognising the fact that it is the world's first fully dimmable energy efficient bulb.
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Greenpeace today congratulated the high street chain Woolworths after the group announced that power crazy, incandescent light bulbs would not be available in its stores by the end of 2010. From that date only highly efficient, compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs will be on sale.
Posted by jamie — 27 September 2007 at 3:22pm
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Great news. Woolworths have made a significant shift in their light bulbs policy and, as a result, are not longer bottom of the heap on our retailers league table.
After receiving thousands of emails and signatures from their customers (ie you) eager to see them take a lead on energy efficiency, Woolies will now be phasing out incandescent light bulbs by the end of 2010. It's not quite the 2008 date we were looking for, but never the less it's a massive improvement and they're now well ahead of many other companies such as Tesco and Waitrose. They're also cutting the price of their efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
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Greenpeace today responded to a government initiative - which aims to remove a large portion of power crazy, incandescent light bulbs from sale by the end of 2011 - by demanding tougher action. While welcoming the fact that only compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) will be on sale at many major retail outlets across the UK from 2011, most major retailers, after a campaign by Greenpeace, have already promised to beat that date.
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Greenpeace is hereby making an initial formal complaint to the Market Research Standards Council. The complaint concerns public polling conducted by Opinion Leader Research in September 2007 at a number of deliberative public consultations on nuclear power. The polling constitutes an important part of the government consultation on nuclear power, ordered by Justice Sullivan in the High Court in February. A previous consultation was deemed unlawful due to its biased nature.
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Last edited 19 September 2007 at 9:35am
Greenpeace today staged a protest at the headquarters of Woolworths PLC in central London as part of a campaign to get the retailer to get power crazy incandescent light bulbs off the shelves by 2008. The action was timed to coincide with the release of the group's half yearly results.
Posted by jamie — 19 September 2007 at 8:27am
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Remember those flags we hung outside Woolworths' head office last week? We have more of those. A lot more. Over 100 of them, each carrying dozens of signatures from Woolies customers eager to see the company selling only energy efficient bulbs. This morning, all those thousands of signatures are being delivered directly to the Woolworths board of directors at their meeting being held at head office, but of course we're doing it with a bit of style.
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