Comments on: Did you power down for Earth Hour?

By: ChrisChaos

ChrisChaos — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:28:05 +0000

We turned off ALL the power in the house, using the master switch on the fuse box, no eletric used at all.
Had a beer or three, told a couple of goast stories, snuggled up with each other.
It was great

Also took the time tried to work out why the U.S thinks it needs to consume so much more energy per person than the rest of the world, with huge engined cars, air-con everywhere and lush green golf courses out in deserts for god’s sake!

Still, now that Bush and his ‘Don’t worry about the enviroment, God will step in and fix his creation if we screw it up to much’ approach are no longer, maybe a policy based on observed data and a scientific look at the problems being encounted and potential solutions will some some beneficial outcomes.
Say start with $10 per gallon gas price and take it from there.

By: Anubis

Anubis — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:40:07 +0000

Yes, can’t Reuters find anything more worthwhile to post than Earth hour and safe bleach?

By: doug

doug — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:11:52 +0000

if we didn’t have electric then we wood all be burning coal or wood to cook our food. with no electric to power our waste disposal we would actually contaminate our earth faster.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:55:26 +0000

Brian From far northern California: Our family participated by shutting all power off, including most plugged in items (removed plugs from walls), shut off printers, phones, everything. We went out to our yard, listened to the radio on a hand-crank radio, had a few drinks and jumped on the trampoline. We had fun for over an hour without power. We need to try to do this more. Candles are a nice thing!

By: Blue Cosmo

Blue Cosmo — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:21:23 +0000

We did shut down all non-essential equipment in the office, and I personally went to bed early and shut off all my equipment at home. I would like to see a graph for that hour across the U.S. to see how much power came off the grid for that time period.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:29:04 +0000

For the second or third year running, my and my husband went out the evening of Earth Hour, thus accidentally participating. It’s the sort of thing I’d want to do if I remembered, but I’m not sure we’re in the full spirit of the thing if it’s not intentional.

By: Rana sylvatica

Rana sylvatica — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:42:10 +0000

The way i see it, (slightly askewed), is that those who Did turn off the juice, Did “something”. Symbolic or not, those who did not, did nothing. I prefer the former.

By: BobB

BobB — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:05:49 +0000

I did my part by protesting the stupidy of excercise by turning all of my lights on. They could probably see my place from the space station.

By: Tim?

Tim? — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:50:17 +0000

I do this everynight, and keep em off for about 8 hours. It is my way of helping the enviroment. I also switched to mercury filled CFL’s so I lower my energy bill.

By: Matt Paxton

Matt Paxton — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:24:09 +0000

I did my part in an odd way, but I’m sure many others did the same. I just went to bed at 8:30, instead of 12:00 or so. Turned off computers, televisions, lights, phones, etc.