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New national standards could bring down cost of LED lights drastically.

Howell Sisters create funky, art quality lighting fixtures from upcycled plastic bottles, household plastic containers and recycled scrap metal. You can get $100 dollars off by sending them 72 recycled plastic bottles.

The folks at Advanced Lumonics sure seem confident in their new EarthLED EvoLux R LED light bulb, with them even going so far as to flatly declare it the "world's most advanced light bulb."

Lighting accounts for up to 20% of your home's annual energy bill, so it's a good place to get started on saving money and energy. Check out this post for tips. Includes a list of CFL coupons and rebate programs.

Different energy saving bulbs are tested to find which one is not only environmentally friendly, but also aesthetically pleasing.

The Grand Prix season has begun and while it follows it’s usual format in countries such as Australia (the opening race) the powers that be have decided to award a Grand Prix to a new country - Singapore. Singapore are taking it all very seriously and are building a quite impressive circuit taking in parts of the city existing roads and adding whole new sections of track. Nothing too unusual about this and certainly nothing to overly concern ‘Eco watchers’ over and above the usual issues of any motor sport or transportation.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) describes a new block grant program to provide funds to cities and towns to allow the localities to experiment with new environmental and energy-saving initiatives.

Las Vegas is a pretty sunny place, right? So why isn't the whole city powered through solar energy? You could ask this question for a lot of places in the world. The answer we're hearing more and more is that alternative energy is not just about being good, but being politically advantageous and affordable. Boehm explains the ups and downs oftrying to implement alternative energy as a primary source of power. He also shows us some of the technology (includingsunlight captured through fiber optics for lighting!) that they're testing at the Center.

Now the energy-saving bulbs are dimmable, come for 3-way lamps, have regular shapes, and have a bunch of other new sizes and uses. No excuses left!

Last week's excuse for not buying CFLs to replace your incandescent lights was that they might cause migraines. Today's excuse, CFLs might cause a rash.

Broke your CFL? Don't panic!

Flanked by congressional Democrats and Republicans, Bush signs 2007 energy legislation at Department of Energy headquarters. The new law increases vehicle fuel economy standards, boosts biofuels and mandates better appliance and lighting efficiency among other provisions.

SunTrackerOne has two giant mirrors that catch all the light, but no heat. They adjust their angle with the movement of the sun throughout the day. It can catch the rays of the sun even when the sun is just 10 degrees above the horizon.

A North Carolina company has achieved a major breakthrough on LED lighting that will dramatically lower costs. The company will also release the world's most energy efficient LED lights.

You've probably heard all the hype about LED light bulbs being the future of lighting. These bulbs can range from $20 to $120. Before you spend all that money, here’s a no-hype, no-nonsense guide to LED light bulbs and a couple things that sellers DO NOT want you to know about these bulbs.