Global moves to reduce incandescents
April 3, 2007
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- Yahoo and "An Inconvenient Truth" film producer Lawrence Bender have joined in the effort by starting 18seconds.org. This new Web site maps "how quickly cities are converting to CFL bulbs."
- Australia is following California's lead by planning to ban incandescent bulbs by 2012.
- In Paris, The European Lamp Companies Federation released a plan to phase out incandescent bulbs with no deadline.
- Wal-Mart announced a goal to sell 100 million CFLs by 2008.
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