The Home Depot's customers are already energy savvy, adopting energy efficient lighting at a rapid rate

OTTAWA (April 25) - Today, the Government of Canada declared a country-wide ban on the sale of inefficient light bulbs by 2012. Due to an increasingly rapid adoption rate of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) by The Home Depot(R) Canada's customers, the company announced it expects that demand will cause the retailer to phase out inefficient bulbs by 2011.

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the role of office environments on worker satisfaction, performance and comfort. The past decade marks a shift from thinking of facilities as a way to house the workforce to thinking about the entire building portfolio of a company in strategic terms.

4/20/07 - Almost a year after being signed into law by Governor Granholm, the Michigan Green School program named its first officials recipient Friday. Fittingly, Hartland High School received the honor as it was environmental science students there that developed the list of twenty energy saving ideas that schools could implement.

Throughout history, metal has provided many uses and many dangers

Uses
Mercury is valued for its ability to conduct heat, stay liquid at room temperatures and form alloys with other metals such as gold, silver and zinc. It is used to make thermometers, barometers and other scientific instruments. Its ability to form alloys with other metals has led to its use in dental fillings as well as in industrial mining, where it is used to remove metals such as gold from the surrounding rock.

LANSING - Governor Jennifer M. Granholm's emphasis on developing an alternative energy sector will create jobs and strengthen the economy according to a new study released today. The extensive energy policy-related study assesses the impact of energy efficiency and renewable energy policies on Michigan's economy. The results of the study clearly show that investments in energy efficiency programs and the adoption of a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) as called for in Granholm's economic plan, will create up to 19,000 additional jobs and increase the Gross State Product (GSP) by as much as $1.6 billion.