Arlington County Help Affordable Housing Residents Save More Money.
Arlington County are helping affordable housing residents save more money on energy bills and also reducing their green house gas emissions. Last week the county donated 1,000 Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to the residents of affordable housing. According to the energy star if every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
In the long-term this generous donation will not only help residents save money on electricity cost, which is on average about $30 over a bulbs lifetime, but it will also help educate them on the importance of being environmentally focused.
Arlington County won the Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) as a prize in the 2007 Change a Light Campaign. This campaign challenged local residents and businesses to pledge to replace a traditional bulb for a CFL bulb; Arlington County obtained the most pledges.
We know that residents in Arlington County are very environmentally focused, but if you have not already made the change to CFLs, why not make the change this weekend.
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