Amy Currioman

I was reading an article in The Washington Times newspaper today about how a lot of companies that claim to be “green” are not actually “green.” It was a very informative article, but very disturbing too. I get very disturbed when I learn how so many unscrupulous companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon of saying they are green when they are not. I don’t like being deceived – not one bit! So I am going to be more vigilant in finding out what products I buy are really “green” or not. And if I find out that they are claiming to be “green” when they are not I plan to write some letters of complaint.

Over the past year, I’ve been trying to buy a few CFL bulbs every week.  I’ve been doing it slowly because they are pretty expensive and my budget can’t accommodate the shock of buying a whole lot of them at once.  So, I’ve been slowly replacing my standard incandescent light bulbs with the new CFL bulbs.  I had a hard time finding 3-way bulbs.  In fact, I didn’t even realize that they made them until a friend told me that she had some!  So, I started searching everywhere in town that sells light bulbs and finally found them at Ace Hardware.  I bought enough of them to put in all of our 3-way lamps.  I hope that these will save as much energy as they claim they will!