Earth Hour

[kelownagirl]

Don't forget to turn off your lights between 8-9pm on Saturday, March 29.

http://www6.earthhourus.org/

:)

[LBTC]

Don't forget to turn off your lights between 8-9pm on Saturday, March 29.

http://www6.earthhourus.org/

:)

Don't you already turn off your unnecessary lights? :):rolleyes:

H&B
~T~

[kelownagirl]

Don't you already turn off your unnecessary lights? :):rolleyes:

H&B
~T~

:rolleyes:

I do actually. I seem to go around turning off lights in this house ALL the time. The two boys I live with, although concerned about the environment, are ALWAYS leaving lights on.

Saturday night should be a breeze. We're usually sitting down eating around that time and we often use candles. It'll just be a romantic dinner.

Not sure if we're supposed to off all power or if the CD player is ok.

[maillotpois]

I do actually. I seem to go around turning off lights in this house ALL the time. The two boys I live with, although concerned about the environment, are ALWAYS leaving lights on.



OMG. Don't even get me started. :rolleyes: The lights, the computer (left on this morning even AFTER specific instruction to turn it off). Sometimes she even leaves the TV on but no one notices because she's simply paused the TiVo.

:rolleyes:

[Geonz]

Gosh, and Saturday night is when my friend said he might be able to come checkout my basement. Hmmm....

[kelownagirl]

Gosh, and Saturday night is when my friend said he might be able to come checkout my basement. Hmmm....

;);):D:D

[Skierchickie]

Okay, 8pm in whatever time zone you are in? Or everybody on the planet at the same time?

[Trekhawk]

Okay, 8pm in whatever time zone you are in? Or everybody on the planet at the same time?

Yep 8pm in whatever time zone your in. My boys and I will be joining in. They think sitting around playing board games or listening to a story by candle light is very exciting.:D

[kelownagirl]

Here's what they say on their website.


On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town.

What will you do when the lights are off? We have lots of ideas.

Join people all around the world in showing that you care about our planet and want to play a part in helping to fight climate change. Don’t forget to sign up and let us know you want to join Earth Hour.

One hour, America. Earth Hour. Turn out for Earth Hour!

[mimitabby]

I am the light turn off freak in my house. I follow DH around, turning off lights. We will probably only have one or two on at 8pm, if it is a normal evening.

[singletrackmind]

Let's see, it's 8:18 pm and two lights are on....but perhaps tomorrow will be a good excuse for a little bread, wine and cheese by candlelight. :D

[SlowButSteady]

Here in South Carolina, USA with no lights from 8 pm to 9 pm, EDT.

We have enough candles lit right now that we may not actually be doing our part to stem global warming.

The up side is that you cannot see how dirty our house is right now!

[Geonz]

Hey, I can use those cute 'wind up' flashlights!

actually... that 50 miles of wind-tervals (18-20 mph winds) have pretty much pooped me. I just might go to sleep :D

[kelownagirl]

It's been well-advertised here in BC. All government buildings are turning off their lights for the hour as well.

[Aggie_Ama]

We were not home, so every light but the light under the microwave was off. We always come in the garage (automatic light), so we don't even leave on a porch light. Of course we were driving the gas guzzling truck, but baby steps. DH will commute by bike and turn off lights at my parents house but he won't give up the behemoth Dodge truck. :rolleyes:

[KnottedYet]

I have all kinds of lights on in my apartment, the heat is on, and I'm running my washing machine, and both of us are on our computers.

We're bad...

[OakLeaf]

We went out to dinner with the neighbors and came home right before 8 pm, walked down to the end of the block to look at the local great horned owls (saw one), then sat on their porch by candlelight drinking sweet wine and listening to music. Nice. :)

[kelownagirl]

We had a romantic candle lit dinner for two. Red thai curry with halibut and scallops, a litre of Banrock Station Cab Sauv, and a chocolate bar with hazelnuts This is the life...

[singletrackmind]

We were the only dark house on our street last night, including the new construction where nobody lives yet and the gianormous chuch at the end of the block. :(

[firenze11]

I think we were one of the only dark houses. The houses here are spaced really far apart and I didn't drive around to look (kinda defeats the purpose of earth awareness ;)). I do know that the neighbors I can see still had their Christmas lights on and up. :rolleyes:

I kinda dug sitting in the dark with the candles, though. It was a good, fun awareness campaign.

All those candlelight dinners sounded pretty darn good. Kelownagirl- I love thai curries, it sounds so good with halibut and sea scallops.

[emily_in_nc]

I'm sorry to say that I didn't hear about this until after the fact. Where have I been???? :(

Emily

[Trek420]

I'm sorry to say that I didn't hear about this until after the fact. Where have I been???? :(

Emily

There's always next year, 03/29/09 :rolleyes:

[GLC1968]

We did this. We spent the hour first walking the dogs and then we walked down to the store to pick up some frozen yogurt. When we got back, we just sat and talked for the last few minutes.

I made sure we turned off the TV & the computers and I held off running the washing machine until after 9, as well.

Most of our building is still uninhabited (brand new apartments), but even so, I saw very, very few dark windows on our walk. :(

[kelownagirl]

I think we should be doing this once a day, or at least coe a week.

Our power company says we had a 2% savings in power for our entire province because of th=at hour and not everyone participated. Just imagine how much power could be saved....

[tulip]

They really ought to avoid scheduling these things during NCAA basketball tournament games...

I live in a small place, so even when I leave all the lights on, which I rarely do, it's only four lights. If folks lived in smaller places, there'd be fewer lights to turn off in the first place.