CFL stands for Compact Fluorescent Light. We all remember the old fluorescent lighting that was used in all old businesses, schools, doctors’ offices, and more. These lights are still used in many places today, although many have been updated too much more energy efficient and more attractive versions. The old fluorescent lights cast everything with a white light that seemed unnatural. Fluorescent lights of today give off a much warmer color of light and are much less expensive than the fluorescent lights of the past.

Compact fluorescent fixtures are much more energy efficient to use than regular incandescent bulbs and are much better for the environment as well. While they are basically a smaller home version of the fluorescent lights businesses have used for years, they are more natural, cheaper over time and much easier to use than the older version. Modern compact fluorescent light bulbs for home use are made to fit into any regular sized light bulb socket. Replacing the incandescent light bulbs in your home with compact fluorescent light bulbs is a wonderful and easy way for you to save energy and help the environment at the same time. In this day and age of “green” thinking, these light bulbs just make sense.

By using compact fluorescent light bulbs in your home, you can save on the electricity you use to light your space. You can use a lower wattage light bulb, because a compact fluorescent light bulb that is only 22 watts puts off the same amount of light that a regular incandescent light bulb puts off using 100 watts. This is a huge benefit to the environment as well as your electric bill. While the compact fluorescent light bulbs are a little more expensive than incandescent lights, you will have to buy them much less often. Energy Saver Light Bulbs can last as much as 10 times longer than regular light bulbs.

Based on a recent report from Energy Star (a US Environmental Protection Agency), compact fluorescent light bulbs can save amazing amounts of energy. If every homeowner in the United States replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb for one year, enough energy would be saved to provide light to over three million houses. That is a huge amount of energy that we could save simply by having one bulb replaced in every home. How much more energy could be conserved if every halogen bulb in every home was replaced with a compact fluorescent light?

In the twenty first century, conserving energy is a bigger concern than it has ever been. More and more people every day are beginning to wonder what they can do to help our planet recover, survive and grow. Many people believe that they are too busy, they don’t have the time to do anything that will have a significant impact on the environment, and they don’t have the ability to really make a change. Those people are wrong. Anyone can have a positive impact by helping our environment and saving energy. It’s really is as easy as changing a light bulb.