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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
He admits the group’s push to replace incandescent bulbs with far more energy-efficient, compact fluorescent ones so far has yielded “modest” results.
But that misses the point, Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) vice president Doug Larson said of its “Enlighten” campaign. The Warrenton-based group put “no money, no resources and very little effort” into the new program, “relative to our work on the power line issue,” Larson said. And yet, as of this week, numerous citizens had visited enlightenUSA.org and pledged to switch to 3,850 fluorescent bulbs to reduce electricity consumption and pollution.
“It says to me there’s huge potential for energy conservation,” he said of the Web site response. “It clearly proves a willingness on people’s part to do this.”
By PEC calculations, the pollution-reduction commitments equate to:
— Removing 438 vehicles from highways per year.
— Relieving as much pollution as 691 acres of forest.
87.9%