Green Bay mayor’s challenge sells 21,000 energy efficient bulbs
From a story by Paul Srubas in the Green Bay Press-Gazette:
A group created by Mayor Jim Schmitt to encourage environmental awareness helped save a whole heap of energy.
Sustainable Greater Green Bay’s six-week Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb Challenge to encourage the purchase of Energy Star-qualified fluorescent bulbs ended last week and resulted in the sale of more than 21,000 bulbs.
The CFL bulbs use so much less energy than standard light bulbs that the number sold is the energy-saving equivalent of 140 homes going off the grid each year, according to Sustainable Greater Green Bay.
It represents a savings of electricity costs of $980,000 and reduces thousands of tons of emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
The challenge was aimed at encouraging businesses and organizations to sell bulbs to their employees and associates. Twenty-eight organizations and businesses participated.
