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Eco Geek

May 15, 2008

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Northwest sets energy-savings record

Posted at 2:50 pm by Sarah Jackson

Here’s some good eco-news.

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council announced today that conservation efforts across the region really paid off in 2007.

Energy saved — according to this story — was equivalent to the electricity used by 146,000 homes, according to a report released in Walla Walla earlier this week.

Though the annual survey reports on conservation achievements by individual groups — residential, commercial, industrial, agriculture and irrigation, and low-income weatherization programs — residential consumers, it turns out, were a big part of the success with “the largest contribution to that savings came from compact fluorescent light bulbs.”

Yay for CFLs, Energy Star appliances and all you energy-conserving Eco Geeks.

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