Get up to speed on everything you need to know about CFLs...

Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) remain accessible, inexpensive, environmentally friendly and one of the fastest ways to reduce your energy usage.

So rather than re-invent the bulb, here we offer you this handy section to help point the way to some fantastic websites all about CFLs:

• The importance and benefits of using CFLs
• CFLs and mercury
• Where to recycle CFLs

• How to dispose of broken CFLs

• How a CFL works / parts of a CFL
• Choosing a CFL
• When a CFL has almost burned out

• Where you can get free CFLs