How to educate staff, children, etc about energy efficient lightbulbs? I work at a daycare and we are going to swith all our lightbulbs to energy efficeint flourescent bulbs and change all batteries to rechargable. How can we educate our staff, children, and community about energy efficient lightbulbs and how can we get them involved in the switch?

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Fairly basic.
Explain to them,that when their child leaves the hallway light on for 10 hours,with a normal bulb,it costs £1.00
If the same light was left on with an energy saving bulb,it would only cost £0.20p.
Similar thing with rechargeable batteries,1 alkaline battery-£0.50p
Rechargeable battery£2.00.-But you can re-charge it 500 times. 67% 2 Votes

Other Answers (4)

• I think the children are too young to be interested because they have no experience to compare it to. They will figure out the concept when they are older.
  
  The staff may be interested but I cannot think of a way to generate genuine enthusiasm. Perhaps a glass jar filled with the $ saved each month (or a graph or chart) and a pizza reward for them? 0% 0 Votes
• I KNOW THIS!
  1.) spread the message- get shirts that say %26quot;recycle%26quot; or %26quot;plant trees%26quot; there r tons of shirts from WWF that r good 4 the envoriment they r made from recycled plastic and organic cotton
  2.) teach the kids! tell em y its good 2 b envorimently friendly chances r they will tell theyre parents bout it
  3.) get the local newspaper to create a story bout how 2 help the Earth and y its good 2
  4.)BOOKS! little 5 page childrens book about helping the earth kids LUV 2 b read 2
  5.) inspire the staff 2 use reusable mugs instead of plastic cups
  6.) GET INFORMED even though it sounds cheesy it works learn more ways 2 b envorimentally frienldy
  7.) plant a tree with the kids no doubt they will b so excited and tell EVERYONE how they r helping our planet. The message will get around
  
  HOPE THIS HELPS!! 0% 0 Votes
• Don%26#039;t. Incandescent lightbulbs are much more pleasant and don%26#039;t contain mercury.
  
  You won%26#039;t really accomplish much to %26quot;save the environment%26quot; by buying different lightbulbs. 33% 1 Vote
• Be sure and tell them that fluorescents contain mercury and that rechargeable batteries contain toxic heavy metals too. 0% 0 Votes