How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

This might be the only way to get some people to change their ways.

A California legislator wants to ban incandescent light bulbs as a part of California’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases. If passed, the “How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb Act” would ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012.

…it would be another pioneering environmental effort in California, the most populous U.S. state. It became the first state to mandate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, targeting a 25 percent reduction in emissions by 2020.

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New Jersey and Australia also have plans in the works to ban the standard bulb. Australia would like to phase them out by 2009. New Jersey, home state of the light bulb’s inventor, Thomas Edison, would like to switch to fluorescent lighting in government buildings over the next three years.

Something as simple as changing a light bulb could be the easiest way to make the biggest difference on your personal carbon footprint.