We received another blast of snow this week in Wisconsin. I was hoping to go out of town for Easter but the weather didn't cooperate. This year I noticed that Easter seemed to fall a few weeks earlier than normal. I didn't know this but there is actually a formula that is used to calculate Easter each year. It is a floating holiday that falls on the Sunday following the Paschal Full Moon. Easter Sunday can fall on one of 35 dates between March 22 to April 25.
This week I heard a story on the news about those new compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs and what can happen if you improperly dispose of them or accidentally break one. Apparently all fluorescent bulbs contain a small amount of mercury. Experts describe mercury as a potent neurotoxin which could be extremely harmful to your health and the environment.
I'm sure you can see the irony here; they save energy, but they also have the potential to ruin the environment, which is what we are trying to protect by reducing our energy usage. I have a few in my home and now that I know about this I will be more careful when I handle them. I'm sure better warning labels and consumer training material will follow. But congress should have thought about that before they passed a law phasing out inefficient incandescent bulbs by 2012.
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