Climate change, saving energy and economic crisis are the hottest and sexiest topics in Europe at the moment. Every week we are writing articles about EU policies and the debates held by the European Parliament on how to solve the current crisis or which policies are the best ones. Basically, what we are trying to do is to raise awareness among our readers on the major problems Europe is facing and to keep them up to date on what their representatives are doing in this extent.

Incandescent light bulb!

“The European Parliament decided to replace the incandescent light bulb with the energy saving ones by 2012″ , was one of the topics debated last week. Well, I have to admit I have never foreseen the importance of such a little detail like a light bulb, nor that I would write about it. As a matter of fact, one of the great things in our web team is that you never know what you are going to get to write about (but that could go as a different story).

So what about incandescent light bulbs? Let me just say (and I am quite sure you will agree with me) that although you use them every day in one way or another, you never actually acknowledge the light bulbs only when they burn out and then you know you have to change them. What kind of type do you have at home? Personally I have no idea, we know and like them only because of their different shapes and colours.

But the truth is the following: using energy-saving light bulbs instead of incandescent ones enable European citizens save every year approximately the annual electricity consumed in Romania, in the same time cutting emissions of CO2 with around 15 million tonnes. Still thinking it is not worth writing about it?

Fluorescent light – the new cool!

And there are lot more other ideas we could start doing in order to save energy, but I will not dive into topics like timed thermostat for heating or refrigerators or ovens, since I am sure we are all clicks away from specialized websites that can give us more information on it.

Meanwhile, I will be going to the shop to buy myself a new green colour light bulb as the old one has just burned out…