Anyone doing Earth Hour?

[Phaedron]

Happens in 2 hours 30 minutes

from: http://www.myearthhour.org/

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation.

Participation is easy. By flipping off your lights on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation and prosperous America. View the toolkits, to find out what else you can do to get involved including leading the Earth Hour movement in your community.
Set Your Clock

On Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. local time, Earth Hour will once again cascade around the globe, from New Zealand to Hawaii
Sparking a Movement

Since its inception three years ago, Earth Hour’s non-partisan approach has captured the world’s imagination and became a global phenomenon. Nearly one billion people turned out for Earth Hour 2009 – involving 4,100 cities in 87 countries on seven continents.

Last year, 80 million Americans and 318 U.S. cities officially voted for action with their light switch, joining iconic landmarks from around the world that went dark for Earth Hour, including:

* Empire State Building
* Brooklyn Bridge
* Broadway Theater Marquees
* Las Vegas Strip
* United Nations Headquarters
* Golden Gate Bridge
* Seattle’s Space Needle
* Church of Latter-Day Saints Temple
* Gateway Arch in St. Louis
* Great Pyramids of Giza
* Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens
* Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro
* St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
* Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London
* Elysee Palace and Eiffel Tower in Paris
* Beijing’s Birds Nest and Water Cube
* Symphony of Lights in Hong Kong
* Sydney’s Opera House

 

[Badjedidude]

No, I won't be doing it. It's pointless.

Even if tons of massive buildings and cities shut down, they'll expend all the extra energy they "saved" during Earth Hour just to get their systems and everything fully going again. It's the same principle as when everyone was doing the day-long gasoline boycott....it doesn't work because everyone just gets MORE gas the next day.

*shrug* So no, it would actually probably be less wasteful to just keep things running.

----Steve

 

[Samuel]

Can't get away from the computer can you?

The amount of energy to get everything started again would be negligible. Every little bit counts, even if you don't see the effects straight away.

 

[Sonic_95]

Global warming and all that stuff is all a bunch of BS.....just another way of Washington making money.

I'm so sick of hearing all those experts saying we need to reduce our carbon footprint, ETC, and they themselves just go off and do what they damn well please.

Nancy Pelosi is a prime example - she is always saying we need to conserve, buy smaller cars, etc....well she herself flies home to California every Friday, returns on Monday, and returns to California on Monday night......and the cost of fuel to fly her around? Try $60,000 each way. Yep....60 grand EACH WAY to fly her to and from, costing you and me $480,000 a month.....that's over $5 million a year!

And she says WE need to conserve? When Newt Gingrich was speaker of the house, he flew commercial most of the time. I guarantee that didn't cost over $5 million a year.

Then we have the wonderful utility companies who continue to raise their rates after they convince us to "conserve" because "usage was down" and they weren't making enough money.

I'm all for being clean and doing what I can to avoid pollution, but they have just gone overboard with this ****. If it was really THAT bad that we were polluting the earth every time we drive our cars, than long ago they would have done away with gasoline and found some other way to power vehicles. The technology is there, but there is too much money in the oil industry for alternative power vehicles to be on the market.

 

[jbates]

Ya well scarcity, profit and capitalism force us into the corner we're in. Will politicians ever full resist oil companies? No, because they are too important a lobby group. As long as we're in a society where there is huge profit to be made, progress takes a back seat.

Unfortunately, regular citizens in North America haven't really clued in to the whole being environmentally friendly thing. We don't put pressure on our governments to raise the environmental standard. As a result, the government will not do anything because to do so would mean a loss of profits.

The same **** happens up here in Canada. Rather than trying to conceive of a new manner of energy creation, they want to build a whole new power plant in Southern Ontario. We already have one that we've been paying off with tax money for the past 20 years. Here comes another one.

Actually the environmental issue alone is enough to convince me to move out of Canada and go live somewhere in Europe, where they at least know what they're doing and are on the right track.