Did you participate in Earth Hour? Douse the lights between 8 and 9PM on Saturday? Had I known about this I would have blogged about it sooner, but I only learned about it accidentally when my wife Googled something and saw that Google's page was "dark".
"We've turned out our lights, now it's your turn." Of course, their site was up and they weren't using any less energy than usual, but they had changed their page from white with black or colored lettering to black with white lettering to get the point across.
We dusted off our unused candles and made dinner by candlelight. Taken to the extreme, we shouldn't have used any energy at all during that hour, but we only kept to the spirit and used energy to cook our food.
After that hour, it became all but unbearable. Most of our candles were gifts -- and a house can take only so much mixing of vanilla, lavender, bayberry, and cinnamon before the assault on the senses trumps the savings in electricity. Note to self: stock up on unscented candles.
I'm really hoping that this statement helped to raise awareness across the planet. The energy issues we face transcend race, religion, politics, and geographical boundaries and every little bit helps.
1 comment:
we usually do our level best to live with out power when the snow knocks the lines down, sometimes for days at a time or some drunken idiot plows into a light pole.Perhaps with a little advance notice, it would have been an event with more participants. I JUST saw it here and no where else.
Schotz
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