The rabbits have definitely upped our home climate control use. They can neither be too warm or too cold. I recently replaced our old thermostat with a decent digitally programmable one so at the very least we try to run the a/c and heat intelligently.

Out of curiosity, what is the title?

Hate them both.

The first gift (and probably only) gift I will purchase for your adopted child is a t-shirt with the recycling symbol.:evil:

Well, he/she would technically be a "recycled" child, so it fits. :p

The 1100 watt power supply in the Atomic Cookie Blast Furnace kind of undoes the ccfls throughout the house.

Exactly the point of the purchase. ;)

Why did I read this thread as "Eco-Quilt"? I thought we were gonna knit something fun, instead it's all about saving the stinky old polar bears.

Who wants to explain to Cherny the difference between quilting and knitting? Anyone? Anyone?

Someone replaced most of the light bulbs in our place with CFLs. Someone else, namely me, finds them annoying. Sure, they're fine when they warm up, but when I just want to pop on the light for a moment to put some laundry away, it's so dim to start off with. And by the time they're actually all the way on, I'm long done. So, there's no point in turning on the light at all, and I just put stuff away in the dark. Which, I suppose, saves energy, although not in the intended fashion. Or is it? Maybe it's a plot to make CFLs just useful enough that we'll buy them, but just annoying enough that we'll just do stuff in the dark rather than wait for them to actually turn on.