There was a similar event across Indian Country and Alaska a few years ago (mid-’90s even?), as an effort to make us notice just how much energy we use and overuse.
Chch to switch off lights for climate
By ARWEN HANN - The Press | Tuesday, 01 January 2008
On Saturday, March 29 [deadline] Christchurch will join cities around the world to take a stand against one of the planet’s biggest threats - climate change…. Cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, Chicago and Manila will switch off their lights for one hour to mark the first global Earth Hour. Christchurch is the first New Zealand city to join the initiative.
Earth Hour - 2007
We invited Sydneysiders - businesses and individuals - to turn off their lights for just one hour, Earth Hour - 7.30pm to 8.30pm on 31 March 2007 - as a …
earthhour.smh.com.au/
See the difference you can make - Earth Hour 2008
Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to …
www.earthhour.org/
This is a world-wide project in partnership with World Wildlife Foundation and the Sidney Morning Herald newspapers. Let me know which Villages, schools, communities will be participating and I’ll list your efforts here.
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I’m glad to see a grass-roots movement like this and I like the idea.
However I would like to suggest to go one step further.
* Blow the main power breaker on your breaker panel for one hour instead. *
This would have a greater impact than just simply turning out the lights.
As a side effect this could also enable us to start thinking about emergency back-up power as well alternative green power.
I think engineers and specialists should emphasize to all these people that in fact by turning off the light we don’t really save anything; the power plants are still running and shutting them down and restart would mean much more waste than running the lights; and power itself as it is cannot be stored during the hour(s), therefore we don’t have any gain here either. What savings are we talking about? Let’s don’t be stupid! If we overall and consistently start saving energy, that is a different story because then we can shut down power plants for good. But until then everything is futile.
I like both your suggestions. It would be impressive if done at night and the satellite could photograph that.
The UNPLUG America - Give Mother Earth a Rest Day (October 13) was first held in 1992. I don’t know how successful it has been since.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/unplug_day/
Well Lord at least we are trying……I think we will progress just keep praying and saving energy….I’m just glad someone cares. :)