With 80% of Israel's private homes using inefficient incandescent lamps – we reduce electricity consumption by campaigning for compact fluorescents and supplying carbon-subsidized lamps for consumers that would never cross the initial cost barrier (tenfold). We advocate, and replace light bulbs in campuses, neighborhoods, commercial centers, and schools with the voluntary aid of children and students.

 

The GEI and the environmental education units in peripheral communities (Negev and Galilee) and poorer urban neighborhoods are providing residents with cost effective non-profit CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lamp). The project provides a unique 10,000-hour CFL offering 4 exclusive features absent from competing commercial products. The bulbs are packed in simple carton, portray economical and environmental data in Hebrew, apply to the European ROHS standard for reducing hazardous waste, and to a basic international workers' right standard.

Carbon financing provides an additional 30% subsidy, and the light-bulbs are distributed at 1/3 of their market price. Work-shops from children and grown-ups emphasizing the environmental (air quality, Climate related) and economical (personal savings, and national savings) help in phasing out the hot, expensive, polluting incandescent lights. The project is operating during 2007-2010 after which we hope that home CFL would become mainstream