Is This the Light Bulb of the Future?
gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com 9/24/2009 — Philips, the Dutch electronics giant whose products range from clothes irons to medical equipment to light bulbs, believes that it’s about to become $10 million richer.

The Promise of a Better Light Bulb?
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com 4/10/2009 — Vu1, a Seattle-based company, is preparing to introduce a light bulb that it says will outperform incandescent, compact fluorescent, and LED bulbs -- a tall order.

A Defense of the Incandescent Light Bulb
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com 4/25/2009 — Howard Brandston, a lighting designer, accuses governments and "energy zealots" of using faulty science to determine the efficiency of light bulbs. He says that, with the use of dimmers and motion sensors, incandescent bulbs can be just as efficient ...

FTC on Greenwashing: Is That All There Is?
environmentalleader.com 6/22/2009 — The Federal Trade Commission in mid-June charged three companies, Kmart Corp., Tender Corp. and Dyna-E International, with making false and unsubstantiated claims that their paper products were “biodegradable.” Kmart and Tender agreed to ...

Interview with the FTC’s Richard Cleland
edrants.com 10/6/2009 — This morning, the Federal Trade Commission announced that its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials would be revised in relation to bloggers. The new guidelines (PDF) specified that bloggers making any representation of a product ...

Brussels prepares full light bulb ban
businessgreen.com 4/2/2009 — Business Green: Fresh from banning energy-efficient light bulbs, legislators in Brussels are considering imposing a ban on all light bulbs. According to sources at the European Parliament, MEPs have become so frustrated with the extent to which even ...

LED Sparks Create Energy Efficient Light Sculptures
inhabitat.com 30 days ago — What if you could design your own lighting fixture in the time that it takes to unscrew a light bulb ? That’s the premise behind Daniel Becker ’s Spark system, a series of energy-efficient LED bulbs that can be linked together to form ...

'Light within a light' offers CFL efficiency with incandescent bulb shape
physorg.com 12/13/2008 — (PhysOrg.com) -- In the coming weeks, General Electric will start selling a new "ship in a bottle" lightbulb - a fluorescent spiral bulb trapped inside a traditional incandescent-shaped bulb.

Lighting / Home -- Pharox LED light bulb
1greenproduct.com 2/12/2009 — Last October, we reviewed the EarthLED EvoLux(TM) bulb and praised it for using just 13-watts of power to deliver the same illumination as a 100-watt incandescent bulb. As that EarthLED review mentioned, there's lots to like about LED bulbs: No mercury (unlike CFLs)Very low power consumption ...

Is the Light Bulb of the Future an Old TV Tube?
greentechmedia.com 12/16/2008 — Seattle's VU1 is releasing an energy-efficient bulb next year that functions a lot like a familiar household appliance.