Are you planning on participating in Earth Hour?
It's a worldwide effort done in every country in an effort to conserve power and become more environmentally friendly. Every May 29th, between 8pm-9pm in your local time, all power in your house should be turned off; computers, televisions, lights, etc.
Personally I will be participating as I believe it is a great idea.
Be sure to check out Earth Hour's official site for more details.
If anyone in GMT replies I'll know they're not since it's 8:30 there.
I'd never heard of it before you told me on MSN
Well, not strictly true, I'd just noticed something about it on Google UK, about 1 min before you talked to me
Hai!
I forgot!
I had been planning on doing it for a while; wanted to ask Ross to "turn the lights out" on VFS as well, but forgot until it was about 1pm [5pm UK]
pfttt it rains here all the time and poof everything electrical goes dead
I didn't participate. Partly as i was at work and i can't work in the dark
If people want to make a difference, then i feel it'll take more than just one hour every so often.
My view on it is that if people want to try to make a difference then they should do something all the time rather than just for a single hour. But don't get me started on the whole "Global Warming" thing
Well, seems I'm the only one who cares about global union in striving for a better tomorrow.
Yes, I understand that "one hour doesn't make much difference", but what happens when a large-scale idea that would actually work well comes about? If people can't even unite in something as simple as flicking off a light switch for 60 minutes, how can we expect to do larger things to make a difference?
Yea i never heard of this, ill do it.
Well, seems I'm the only one who cares about global union in striving for a better tomorrow.
Yes, I understand that "one hour doesn't make much difference", but what happens when a large-scale idea that would actually work well comes about? If people can't even unite in something as simple as flicking off a light switch for 60 minutes, how can we expect to do larger things to make a difference?
I understand where you're coming from, but i don't see why everything has to happen as one - its each individual's responsibility to do this, and these occasions, in my view make people think "ah, i've done my bit, i don't need to do any more" whereas something more prolonged will make people think more about their energy consumption.
Well, seems I'm the only one who cares about global union in striving for a better tomorrow.
Yes, I understand that "one hour doesn't make much difference", but what happens when a large-scale idea that would actually work well comes about? If people can't even unite in something as simple as flicking off a light switch for 60 minutes, how can we expect to do larger things to make a difference?
I understand where you're coming from, but i don't see why everything has to happen as one - its each individual's responsibility to do this, and these occasions, in my view make people think "ah, i've done my bit, i don't need to do any more" whereas something more prolonged will make people think more about their energy consumption.
Because it's easier to get something done if there's say, 1 billion people behind it rather than only 25 thousand.
I heard it on the news, and then I went back to what ever I was doing. I'm obviously not doing it since its 8:21PM here.
I did Earth hour.
Played Monopoly with candles lit.
I haven't played Monopoly in so long; that sounds fun.
My friend Stephanie went to an Earth Hour party with a huge drum circle and everything.Yay for hippies!
Well I did it last year, and this year. Sydney may have started it, but all the places which "participated" kept all security lights on and it didn't look much different: (Top image is before Earth Hour, Bottom is during the hour)
I have to agree one hour may not be much, but with the amount of participants means the message is getting out there. Anyway, it was fun sitting in the dark, glaring at neighbours with lights on. xD
It takes more energy to shut off a light and turning it back on, same with any electrical appliance. It'd have to be for like a whole week.
But we do it anyway, not just for an hour, but for a whole night, its so we can keep our light, and gas bill down.
as far as I'm concerned, until america, india, china do something to seriously cut their emissions, anything the UK and other places do, will ... well, be pointless!
as far as I'm concerned, until america, india, china do something to seriously cut their emissions, anything the UK and other places do, will ... well, be pointless!
That's something i've always wondered about, and hopefully someone here can give me an answer - why hasn't the US ratified the Kyoto protocol?
as far as I'm concerned, until america, india, china do something to seriously cut their emissions, anything the UK and other places do, will ... well, be pointless!
That's something i've always wondered about, and hopefully someone here can give me an answer - why hasn't the US ratified the Kyoto protocol?
Because the economy is already past failing due to Bush's personal vendetta with the Middle East, and he can't afford to make anymore economical sacrifices. In short, they're greedy.
@ Darkmage: I find it extremely hard to believe that turning on a light takes more power than a light being on for an hour. Maybe turning it on uses up more power per second on average than a light bulb being on already, but there's no way it uses more than an hour's worth of electrical power.
@ Wrighty: So you'd rather join the problem than aid with the solution? Sounds a bit passive to me.
@ Felix: I'm sure they still saved quite a bit of power from the spotlights being off, as well as the bridge lights.
Me turning off a light wont do anything. The UK turning off a light wont do anything. China turning off a light will make a hell of a lot of difference. It's thought that the amount of energy that the UK save by turning off the light for an hour, china consume in less than that! ;/
Me turning off a light wont do anything. The UK turning off a light wont do anything. China turning off a light will make a hell of a lot of difference. It's thought that the amount of energy that the UK save by turning off the light for an hour, china consume in less than that! ;/
You're missing the point that although China eats electricity like crazy, that hour of electrical power usage is still saved.
Well im good cause I did it