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When Al Gore sat before both House and Senate committees, he made recommendations for legislative action to combat global warming in the United States, one of which was the eventual ban of incandescent light bulbs.

To do so would follow the lead of Australia and the European Union, and groups in the U.S. have launched their campaign. Energy efficient light bulbs are more expensive but last longer, emit less pollutants, and are the economically and environmentally wise choice. By switching out what is already in the market, homes and businesses can nearly effortlessly reduce their emissions.

The reduction represents a few years’ worth of domestic electric emissions. Every building block counts. And the illustration carries an important message potentially applicable to the entire effort to makeover energy use – strategized change can be simple, effective, and beneficial.

The Washington Post reports today

The Gangotri glacier, which provides up to 70 percent of the water of the Ganges during the dry summer months, is shrinking at a rate of 40 yards a year, nearly twice as fast as two decades ago, scientists say.

What is the impact?

“This may be the first place on Earth where global warming could hurt our very religion. We are becoming an endangered species of Hindus,” said Veer Bhadra Mishra, an engineer and director of the Varanasi-based Sankat Mochan Foundation, an organization that advocates for the preservation of the Ganges. “The melting glaciers are a terrible thing. We have to ask ourselves, who are the custodians of our culture if we can’t even help our beloved Ganga?”

The first of what may be many such impacts if we continue on our current path.