Earth Hour
 

Since this is in the news now and I feel that environmental issues are important, what do you guys think about Earth Hour? On Saturday, March 28, everyone should turn off their lights from 8:30-9:30 (local time) as a reminder of the importance of conserving energy. Landmarks and businesses worldwide will also be turning off their lights. Personally, I'm going to try and remember to participate. :)

More information can be found here: http://www.yahoo.com/s/1050075

Just a way for people to feel good about themselves for one day out of the year, while accomplishing nothing. The root cause problems are pretty fundamental.

So Earth Day has been demoted to an hour?

Will it happen in the U.K

You bet I will be participating. However, I will start at 8PM because my favorite TV show starts at 9PM.

I'll be turning off my lights tonight.

I usually keep my lights off in my apartment, anyway. I have multiple Earth Hours a day, man.

I won't, because this is just stupid. And I doubt all of the restaurants, malls, bars, night clubs, movie theaters, the block party going on down the street, on a Saturday Night none the less, are going to participate either.

And you're about as smart as those people are.

I thought you might want to note that though "tree huggers" is now a derisive term, the original practicioners weren't hippies or even environmentalists in the true sense of the word. They were ordinary citizens in India who lived near a forest where a company, without local permission, was going to cut down all the trees. The only immediate method for the locals to stop the lumberjacks as they were about to do their work was to wrap themselves around the trees, hugging them, so the lumberjacks couldn't cut them down. I don't know what eventually happened, but the tree huggers did at least delay the trees from being cut down.

Earth Day is in April

Sydney, Australia started this whole thing in 2007. All shops, malls, restauraunts participate. San Fransisco, Tel Aviv, Dublin, Bankok, Dubai, New Zealand, and many other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_H...8_Participants

:lol:

This made me lol so hard for so many reasons.

I turn the lights off at night, and in rooms I'm not in and when I'm not home.
Wow I feel good about my self now

Television
 

I think many television channels could go off air too.

Playing guitar in the dark is no fun for sure.:P

This might have worked if there was some publicity..

Or if Al Gore did it too. :roll:

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the guy?

He turned off the lights. Just as I will do, to feel better about myself...

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