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Should We Celebrate the CFL?

by Iain Murray on March 26, 2010 · 3 comments

in Culture, Economy, Energy, Environment, Personal Liberty, Zeitgeist

In its story on Human Achievement Hour today, USA Today says we will be celebrating breakthrough technologies “such as the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb.”

Hmmm.  What Michelle actually told the reporter was that even people who celebrate the CFL should celebrate Thomas Edison and the incandescent lightbulb, because it was that technological breakthrough that eventually made the CFL possible.  Earth Hour, however, represents a repudiation of technological advancement, the incandescent bulb and the energy that powers it. [click to continue…]

LibertyWeek 36: We Go Green

by Richard Morrison on April 1, 2009

in CEI Projects, Podcast

Hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist join Michelle Minton in welcoming you to LibertyWeek 36: The Green Episode. We begin our environmental adventure with an update on the high cost of renewable energy and the good news from the coal laboratory. We then pass on advice for drinking green in Beer News and celebrate the recent observance of Human Achievement Hour. This brings us to the featured interview with our distinguished colleague and author Steve Milloy – where we explore his new book Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them and its targets, from the Audubon Society to Zero Population Growth. Finally we round out the program with a little Olympic News.