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Healdsburg Winery Helps You Change a Lightbulb

Rodney Strong takes going green to the extreme.

In honor of Earth Day Rodney Strong Vineyards is encouraging you to make a small change in order to make a big difference. In this week's , Healdsburg Patch's shows us how the local winery is challenging you to change.

  • Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity, and last up to 10 times longer.
  • If every household in Sonoma County replaced just one bulb, it would save nearly 124 million pounds of CO2 per year.
  • If every household in California replaced just one bulb, it would save over 8 billion pounds of CO2 from being released.
  • And if every household in the country swapped just one ordinary bulb for an energy-efficient bulb, it would save nearly 77 billion lbs of CO2 from being released.

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