Essay 3 Proposal – Lighting the Way: One light bulb at a time

 Essay 3 Proposal – Lighting the Way: One light bulb at a time

Kimberly Johnson

English 213

 

Many Americans are hearing ways to lower emissions, conserve energy and protect the planet. One simple method is commonly overlooked as a useful solution for lowering emissions and conserving energy for the planet. Traditional Light bulbs are used for lighting nearly everywhere around the world. This major use worldwide gives rise to a need for more efficient means for lighting the world using light bulbs. Switching to energy efficient light bulbs is a more productive method for everyone to follow. It is simple and gives large results despite many people feeling switching a light bulb is not vary helpful as a solution to conserving and lowing emissions for the world. It has been found according to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency that if every American just replace one light bulb with an energy efficient light bulb that the results that would occur is enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year. As well as save roughly 600 million in annual energy costs and prevent 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year.  Results such as these demonstrate the usefulness of the movement for people to switch light bulbs with energy efficient light bulbs. Everyone should participate in switching traditional light bulbs to the alternative energy efficient light bulbs.  Although the office of AMG at UAF is small, if employees take the initiative to switch the office light bulbs to energy efficient bulbs it would create high quality use of electricity switching can create environmental advantages because it would lower emissions, save energy and allow for the saved energy to be used in different areas.

The energy used throughout the world continues to rise and affect the environment. By switching to high-energy efficient light bulbs everyone can contribute to providing a solution to the damages that are occurring to the environment due to human-made use of energy. Energy efficient light bulbs use less energy then what are traditional used. Energy efficient light bulbs also last a lot longer then traditional bulbs and produce less heat, which increases safety standards for light bulbs as well. These benefits show that switching light bulbs to energy efficient light bulbs is beneficial and should be done. Lowering greenhouse gases is commonly known to be important for the environment. Human-made pollution is continuing to rise and effect the environment negatively.  Energy efficient light bulbs are a constructive solution to lowering emissions. The office called Advanced Materials Group (AMG) at UAF is a small research office. There are four employee offices in this building with roughly twenty traditional light bulbs. If this office changes just the office lights it would bring environmental and economic benefits. This initiative taken by employee would lower emission created from greenhouse gases.

The use of energy efficient lighting will also allow the office to save money and energy. Energy efficient light bulbs conserve energy. Conserving energy lowers the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.  Since traditional light bulb do not last as long switching light bulbs with energy efficient light bulbs is a great way to conserve energy since they last so much longer and use less energy to produce the same function as traditional light bulbs.

Conserving energy and lowering emission is not the only benefit for switching to energy efficient light bulbs but also demonstrates why AMG office should participate as well. The energy saved allows the energy that would otherwise be wasted in traditional lighting to be reallocated to other energy needs. Reallocating energy is a great way to use conserved energy.

Lowering emissions, conserving energy and allowing energy to not be wasted and used in other areas instead of lighting demonstrate the promise that energy efficient lighting brings. The office has only a few offices and each member could easily change the light bulbs with an energy efficient light bulb in there own office. It would be a simple way for the employees to lower emission costs, protecting the planet from harmful greenhouse gases.

Save energy and reallocate what would have been wasted on lighting to be used in different areas for energy needs. Switching lighting is simple and would not need to be done often since energy efficient light bulbs last much longer then traditional lighting. AMG can easily participate in an easily attainable solution to help the environmental damage that is currently happening. Current lighting systems around that Nation are wasting energy and producing large amounts of greenhouse gases. If AMG takes a small step it can bring forward great advantages to the environment while saving money in lighting as well as save time by not needing to switch lighting as often.  Taking incentive to move away from the use of traditional lighting to energy efficient lighting is easy and beneficial.

 

 

Light bulbs for consumers. Retrieved from U.S Environmental Protection Agency website: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=LB

 

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