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The SYLVANIA monthly newsletter aims to provide you with information on the future of and ways that you can save energy and money by changing the way you think about .

Earth Day

Here are some tips that will help you take part in protecting the environment. No small effort is ever wasted when it comes to contributing in saving the planet.

Make sure you only do full loads of laundry and dishes.

Conserve water by using water conserving showerheads.

turn the water off while brushing your teeth.

Switch to appliances that have earned the ENERGY STAR^®.

Put light fixtures on timers to eliminate possibility of leaving lights on.

Unplug appliances when not home.

Unplug power supplies when not in use.

Exchange incandescent bulbs for SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs.

Use battery operated products like SYLVANIA DOT-it® portable tap lights.

Avoid using electricity altogether with solar power products like the Solar Dot-it®.

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Facts about Compact Fluorescent Lighting (CFL)

Compact Fluorescent bulbs are slowly replacing the traditional Incandescent bulb that was invented by Thomas Edison more then 120 years ago. These Incandescent bulbs work by heating a metal filament in a vacuum, which end up releasing 90% of the energy as heat. This makes these types of bulbs extremely inefficient. If you take into consideration that Americans keep about 73 million lights on every day for a period of between four and 12 hours you can begin to see how much energy and money is wasted on alone. This is why Incandescent bulbs as we know them today will be begin to be phased beginning in the year 2012.

Here a few facts about the impact changing traditional incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs from SYLVANIA can have on the planet:

If we changed a bulb for every child in America, each year we would save enough energy to light nearly 2 million homes, $380 million on energy bills, and the equivalent in greenhouse gases to the emissions from more than half a million cars.

If every American home replaced just one light with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

Lighting accounts for nearly 20% of an average home’s electricity bill

All CFLs are not created equal. To earn the government's ENERGY STAR mark, a CFL must meet strict energy efficiency standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, as well as quality and lifetime guidelines.

Want to learn more about Sustainability and the product SYLVANIA offers to promote it? Then check our Sustainability section by clicking here. You can also view the available Sustainable, ENERGY STAR product by clicking here.

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