Australia to ban old-style bulbs
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The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country.
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The Australian environment minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said he would work with states to get rid of incandescent bulbs by 2009 or 2010.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that a planned official apology to Aborigines over the forced removal of children from their families will remove "a blight on the nation's soul."
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Several manufacturers are replacing bulbs in televisions with lasers and light-emitting diodes, which beam red, green and blue light rather than white light.
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Australian cricketing bodies announce a new anti-racism policy, but calling the English "poms" is ruled acceptable.
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SYDNEY -- Australia's government announced plans yesterday to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs across the country.
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Laws outlawing ageism at work are due to come into effect on 1 October throughout the UK
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On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on.
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Now just Â£15m to save Â£20k a year Someone owes Westminster City Council an apology: the amortisation period on its new planet-saving street lamps is not, as we reported yesterday, an astounding 1,450 years, but a rather more modest 750 years.â¦
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The switch to energy-saving light bulbs may put thousands at risk of painful skin reactions, charities warn.
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Environmental group Greenpeace asked India Wednesday to follow Australia and ban the common lightbulb to cut greenhouse gas emissions, fight climate change and conserve energy.
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Science & environment: Supermarket chain to give away energy-saving lightbulbs to customers who make green pledge.
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Australia's Aborigines are set to lose the legal right to stop people entering their outback lands, which cover an area almost the size of Mongolia, sparking protests their homes will become an "Aboriginal Disneyland".
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BENTONVILLE, Ark.  - Andrew Ruben, vice president of strategic planning for the world's biggest retailer, leans across the table and pleads passionately for consumers to embrace the compact fluorescent light bulb. Though a CFL bulb costs more, it uses 75% less energy and lasts 10 times longer than a regular bulb.
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A coalition of industrialists, environmentalists and energy specialists is banding together to try to eliminate the incandescent light bulb in about 10 years.
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A ban on TV adverts for casinos, betting shops and online gambling will be scrapped under new rules.
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Australia plans to ditch traditional incandescent filament light bulbs in favour of a greener alternative.