Weekly Roundup March 5-9: The absolute best #green stories of the week!

Earth911 Weekly Roundup: March 5 – 9

earth911.com 09 Mar '12, 10pm

Weekly Roundup March 5-9: The absolute best #green stories of the week!

This Sunday, most Americans will set their clocks ahead an hour for daylight saving time. But does the original motivation for “springing forward” – saving energy by taking advantage of summer’s extra hours of sunlight – still hold weight in today’s world? The idea for daylight saving time dates back to Benjamin Franklin, but laws mandating a national time change weren’t instituted in the U.S. until World War I and II, in an effort to conserve the fuel needed to produce electric power. Proponents say the time change still helps us conserve energy to this day, but some critics remain unconvinced.

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