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Cornell study finds warmer offices more productive.

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: July 15, 2010
Why would a com­pany office have it’s ther­mo­stat set to 68°? That was our first thought when read­ing this news blurb. Sixty-eight degrees is freez­ing in an office envi­ron­ment where almost every­one sits at work­sta­tions or in cubi­cles all day. What sense does this make? Chilly Offices Limit Pro­duc­tiv­ity Rais­ing the tem­per­a­ture of an insur­ance company’s [...]
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CFL’s suck and Incandescent Bulbs are evolving. That’s really good.

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: July 6, 2009
Despite a decade of cam­paigns by the gov­ern­ment and util­i­ties to per­suade peo­ple to switch to energy-saving com­pact flu­o­res­cents, incan­des­cent bulbs still occupy an esti­mated 90 per­cent of house­hold sock­ets in the United States. Aside from the aes­thetic and prac­ti­cal objec­tions to flu­o­res­cents, old-style incan­des­cents have the advan­tage of being remark­ably cheap. - nytimes I [...]
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