Recycling, water filters, and even electric cars are great ideas that have helped our society out in this going green era. While we have come up with great new innovative ideas to help our world save energy, what if we have over-looked one of the most simple and the most effective way to save energy. What if it was as easy as flipping a switch? Saving energy has never been so easy and as effective as the fluorescent light bulb.

Now what makes Fluorescent light bulbs so good? Is it the fact that your standard Incandescent light bulb is just so bad, or is there really something else to this bulb?

I say its a little mixture of both. The standard 60 watt incandescent light bulb is what most house holds are using now. Little do they know about 90% of the power consumed by an incandescent light bulbs is emitted by heat rather then by visible light.

For a few months out of the year this could be a great help during the bitter cold and trying to keep your house warm. But let’s flip the script and what about the summer. When you’re trying to keep your house cool. The bulb then is wasting energy by its self then making it warmer in your house which makes your air conditioning work harder. All said and done your wasting energy and money because of a simple light. And all this is said if only the bulbs make it a full year. Most Incandescent light bulbs typically have a lifespan of around 900 hours. To put that into perspective, you'll be able to turn the bulb on for around five hours per day for six months before the bulb will use up its lifespan. This means your buying more light bulbs which means spending more money, and in the summer a lot more energy.

Larry West a professional editor and writer on environmental issues said. “If you want to change the world, start by changing a few light bulbs. It is one of the best things you can do for the environment, and