EARTH HOUR

[PhenoMenal]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour

Earth Hour is an international event that asks households and businesses to turn off their lights and non-essential electrical appliances for one hour on the evening of 29 March at 8 pm local time until 9 pm to promote electricity conservation and thus lower carbon emissions.

And even if you dont participate, hopefully it will at least raise your awareness about turning off electrical appliances when they aren't needed. Every little bit counts, and Earth Hour proved that last year.

The 2007 Earth Hour (the very first) is estimated to have cut Sydney's mains electricity consumption by between 2.1% and 10.2% for that hour, with as many as 2.2 million people taking part.

Stay tuned for 2008 results in the coming days ...

 

[Raistlin Majere]

chit i do that all day everyday
only light nessacary is my 600w


thanks for the info

 

[Dr Dog]

I will be shutting off lights, even grow lights tonight at 8 pm

 

[PhenoMenal]

Turning off grow lights !?!? Maybe that's going a bit far ... :smile:

 

[NOKUY]

Turning off grow lights !?!? Maybe that's going a bit far ... :smile:

lol....i think "grow lights" are exempt from this

yeah ill shut my lights off, but then im gonna go blast thru town in my SUV while they are of hehe

 

[green michine]

yeah google page has turned off there lights. I kinda like the dark google page.

 

[Dr Dog]

Turning off grow lights !?!? Maybe that's going a bit far ... :smile:

Nah not that bad, i get a power outage now and then that last more than an hour. But I have done all sorts of stuff lately to help the environment

I no longer use plastic bags, everything is washed in cold water, I keep my house on the cool side, reducing natural gas. I use maybe one bag of garbage a month, everything else is recycled

 

[PhenoMenal]

Google, Prince Charles join Earth Hour

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23454731-23109,00.html

People switched off lights across the world today, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern at global warming.
In Bangkok some of the city's business districts, shopping malls and billboards went dark, although street lights stayed on. One major hotel invited guests to dine by candlelight and reported brisk business.

In Copenhagen the famed Tivoli Gardens said it would also switch off along with the city hall.

In Britain about 26 town and city councils signed up to switch off non-essential lights as did several historic buildings including Prince Charles' private residence Highgrove House, London City Hall, Winchester Cathedral and even the Government Communication Headquarters radio monitoring station.

And in the age of the internet, the UK arm of search engine Google, too, turned its home page black ahead of time with the message: "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn."

Up to 30 million people were expected to switch off their lights for 60 minutes by the time Earth Hour - which started at 8pm in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand - completed its cycle westwards.

More than 380 towns and cities and 3,500 businesses in 35 countries signed up for the campaign that is only in its second year after it began in 2007 in Sydney alone.

"Earth Hour shows that everyday people are prepared to pull together to find a solution to climate change. It can be done," said James Leape of WWF International which was running the campaign.

"But we need to harness some of the cooperative spirit we've seen with Earth Hour to find a global solution."

Lights at Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge were switched off and Australians held candle-lit beach parties, played poker by candle light, floated candles down rivers and dined by candlelight.

Floodlights were also to go out at landmarks in Budapest, including its castle, cathedral and parliament, and about 100 statues and museums.

The movement was then to jump the Atlantic to the US and Canada, where several cities including Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta and Toronto signed up.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Chicago's Sears Tower and Soldier Field Stadium football ground, as well as the 553-metre CN Tower in Toronto were due to be plunged into darkness.

Even the lights at Niagara Falls were to go out.

Buildings account for about one-third of the carbon emissions that scientists say will boost global average temperatures by between 1.4 and 4.0 degrees celsius this century bringing floods and famines and putting millions of lives at risk.

Organisers of Earth Hour said that while switching off a light for one hour would have little impact on carbon emissions, the fact that so many people were taking part showed how much interest and concern at the climate crisis had taken hold.

"This was only supposed to be in Australia again this year but we got bombarded with messages of interest to spread it far wider," said WWF's Jo Sargent. "Next year it will be even bigger."

 

[NOKUY]

i have no kids and never will...and i dont give a shit about anyone but myself...and my GF is sitting 1 foot away and will
attest to that.

i wanna watch this world go down, and i'll just be a "watcher"...w/ a smile on my face.

 

[PhenoMenal]

Google turned their web page backgrounds from white to black during this hour :smile:

 

[bongasaurus]

Google turned their web page backgrounds from white to black during this hour :smile:

i think its been like that all day...

oops, i forgot

 

[NOKUY]

i think its been like that all day...

oops, i forgot

Yeah google has been like that all day, an i wish they'd keep it that way...that screen is easy on the eyes.