Earth Hour

ya gonna do it?

Turn out the lights tomorrow at 8:30 pm for one hour. That's not only lights, but unplug all the standby stuff, the phone, etc.

I guess I better stock up on candles and bring out my guitar.

http://www.earthhour.org/home/

I'll be pissed if the lights go out right when I'm lining up a free kick.

I'll turn off the lights. But I don't think it'll be for an hour. I have two little kids. An hour without electricity and either their heads will explode or they'll see to it that mine does.

Maybe you could just flip them on and off once. That has to count somehow. :)

I hope my kids don't get wind of this, or they will nag me to do it. Easy for them, it's past their bedtime. I'll celebrate it two hours later.

Cloud;550144 wrote:

ya gonna do it?

I think its a great thing for those who aren't conscious enough or need the little extra impetus. I do all I can - that particular hour will be no different. I wholeheartedly endorse this to be a daily event. Do it every day and make a difference.

glatt;550163 wrote:

I hope my kids don't get wind of this, or they will nag me to do it. Easy for them, it's past their bedtime. I'll celebrate it two hours later.

I already sent a text to both of 'em glatt and posted it on facebook, myspace and that other stuff they see. :p:rolleyes::cool:

Cloud;550144 wrote:

ya gonna do it?

Turn out the lights tomorrow at 8:30 pm for one hour. That's not only lights, but unplug all the standby stuff, the phone, etc.

Maybe I will turn out the lights and stuff and go out to eat. That would count. Sort of.

Who schedules a freaking earth hour on prime-time Saturday night? :lol:

I might do this though. I always have candles going anyway.

Sounds like it's intended to communicate without debate that the use of any form of energy is by default bad for the entire planet.

That's not only lights, but unplug all the standby stuff, the phone, etc.

Oh, no, the website encourages you to take videos of the event and upload them to Youtube, live-blog the event, etc.

The power to do all that = yeeah, about 10 compact fluorescents for an hour...

It's like when they held the global warming summit in Bali... thus ensuring that almost every attendee and the press would fly halfway around the world on private jets...

Undertoad;550219 wrote:

Sounds like it's intended to communicate without debate that the use of any form of energy is by default bad for the entire planet.

Oh, no, the website encourages you to take videos of the event and upload them to Youtube, live-blog the event, etc.

I couldn't understand that. What about the energy used for videos and computer time, etc. Seems like it would off set any gains.

Power generation is done on demand anyway. The real question is will the power companies cut back on the fuel they burn if this is done by a lot of people. I'm skeptical. I bet it'll just be wasted power during that hour.

99.9%* of candles are made of paraffin wax, a... wait for it... wait for it..... petroleum product.




* this is my estimate only. Wikipedia only says "most candles" but that did not have the effect I needed, and besides, you know I'm right.

Eh fuggit. It cuts into pron time anyway.

glatt *strikes again!

edit * and UT and Shawnee

Is this like all the "don't buy gasoline on a certain day" movements where people will just buy it a day earlier or later and have no effect on anything?

I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to bathe the kids in pitch darkness. There's something unsafe about that... I'm sure of it...

Nah. It'll be reet, Clod. Job's a good'un.


[northern to English translation service: Nah. Go ahead, Clod, it'll be fine, you'll see.]


[eta] that's actually a phrase a I use a lot. Often it gets cut down to: Be reet. Job's a goodun.

I plan to turn all the lights on, crank up the ipod dock, turn all the tvs on etc

why? because I'm a rebel.


actually, I'll most likely be driving home about that time.

DanaC;550363 wrote:

Nah. It'll be reet, Clod. Job's a good'un.


[northern to English translation service: Nah. Go ahead, Clod, it'll be fine, you'll see.]


[eta] that's actually a phrase a I use a lot. Often it gets cut down to: Be reet. Job's a goodun.

Well, now I understand Brass in Pocket by the Pretenders. I found a site where everybody was speculating what different parts of it mean, and finally someone who knew what they were talking about chimed in:

some poster on some site wrote:

Brass is northern English slang for money.
Bottle again is English slang for courage, she has moxie. She has balls.
Reet is again northern slang. It's so reet. She's alright. It's all good.
Skank is a dance, a way of moving.
I'm from the north of England. These are pretty common terms where I come from.

Thanks Dana! I always wondered but never thought to look it up before.

Undertoad;550219 wrote:

Sounds like it's intended to communicate without debate that the use of any form of energy is by default bad for the entire planet.

Oh, no, the website encourages you to take videos of the event and upload them to Youtube, live-blog the event, etc.

The power to do all that = yeeah, about 10 compact fluorescents for an hour...

It's like when they held the global warming summit in Bali... thus ensuring that almost every attendee and the press would fly halfway around the world on private jets...

yeah--that actually came from somewhere else--a news commentary, I think. I was surprised too, to go on the website and find they were recommending "blog about your hour." I'm thinking that . . . doesn't make sense. (scratches head)

I think it's a cool idea, so I will do it. My lights at the very least.

I can still read on my iPhone . . . :3eye:

I've enjoyed reading this thread, even though I have nothing much to add; see my title. Lots of cute doggies though.

EDIT: I meant to put this in the doggie thread --- how did it get here?

DanaC;550363 wrote:

Nah. It'll be reet, Clod. Job's a good'un.

northern to English translation service: Nah. Go ahead, Clod, it'll be fine, you'll see.

Oh. I always thought reet was Chinese for l33t

:)

I think you mean 'Engrish'

lumberjim;550368 wrote:

I plan to turn all the lights on, crank up the ipod dock, turn all the tvs on etc.

I'll see your bet and raise you the following:
[LIST]
[*]Blast the AC with all external doors open, plus run the gas fireplaces to keep from freezing to death.
[*]Run full loads in the dishwasher, washer machine, and dryer.
[*]Swap out all Energy Star compact fluorescent light bulbs with high wattage incandescent bulbs just for this one hour...and let 'em burn baby!
[*]Run splinklers (water is a resource too!). Also run all of the hot water in faucets to force hot water heaters to run full steam.
[*]Let all three cars idle in the driveway (not too wise to do this in the garage) to waste gas and add back [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]pollutants [/FONT][/COLOR]to the environment that are saved by everyone else.
[*]Burn garbage in 55 gallon drum.
[*]Crank up home theater system to Tom Petty's Southern Accents album and turn on speakers for all rooms, plus back porch.
[*]Go to office 1 hour before and turn on all lights on all 10 floors.
[/LIST]Of course I'm gonna regret the spike to my electric & gas bill...

Frame that bill... your great grandchildren will have a great story about Great Grandpa Yznhymr being one of the last cantankerous free thinkers, a true American, when they take it to the Antiques Road Show. :haha:

Lol, Yzn!

I will turn off my lights and tv, but I have a scheduled event this evening in one of my online games. So computers stay on.

lumberjim;550368 wrote:

I plan to turn all the lights on, crank up the ipod dock, turn all the tvs on etc

why? because I'm a rebel.


actually, I'll most likely be driving home about that time.

driving home with no lights might cause a problem...

All the lights are off, but my sister refuses to turn off the tv. I'm on my laptop.

We were encouraged to stop idling for the hour. I did, just to be contrary. And I didn't need to, either. But I did notice they didn't tell us to pull over and stop driving for an hour. Hmmmmmm.....

I turned out all the lights; left my computer in sleep mode 'cause of some problems it's having; read on my iphone. It was kinda fun. But no one around me did it. I'm sure if I lived someplace like Portland (forgot to call BD#1) there would be more participation.

My computer and TV stayed on. All the lights were already off because they almost always are if I can help it (hate bright lights except sunshine) and I had candles going. I didn't peek outside to see if anyone around me was participating, but I doubt it.

My wife wanted to participate, and I wanted to watch the DVD we got from Netflix. I finally wore her down. We watched the DVD on our new energy efficient LCD tv by the light of a single compact fluorescent bulb.

All the houses around us had their lights on.

Al Gore turned off most of the lights in his house, but forgot the spotlights on his trees and mansion entrance:

I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.

In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.

I shit you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

I had friends over and we were chilling by the backyard fireplace. of course the kids were in the house with the lights on playing video games. except for the ones out front in playing soccer in the cul-de-sac with the dewalt spot lights on.

It's earth hour tonight, March 27! Turn off your lights for one hour starting at 8:30
to support the World Wildlife Fund's efforts to highlight the problem of climate change.

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people around the world will come together to call for action on climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. The movement symbolizes that by working together, each of us can make a positive impact in this fight, protecting our future and that of future generations.

http://www.myearthhour.org/about

I did it last year, and I'll do it again tonight. How 'bout you?

I will be supplementing the lack of lights on in the house tonight with a giant ass bonfire made with pallets at my buddy's house. A giant smokey middle finger rising into the evening sky. How romantic.

I'm so cheap that every hour is earth hour at my house.

8:30 which time zone? or was it a rolling blackout? I was cleaning. I needed light. Banana lady arrives Weds.

OOOPS! I forgot. Erase this message when you read it.

Earth Hour tomorrow, March 26! Turn off the lights at 8:30 pm where you are!

NO WAI! Banana lady is due again.... I need to clean..... Can we reschedule earth hour for some other weekend when I couldn't care less? like Christmas or something?

So you would rather it be sometime when you could ignore it, without the good excuse you now have? :haha:

That's pretty stong correlation there, Monster, I'm starting to wonder if Earth Hour causes the appearance of Banana lady. Monitor for next year, and keep us informed.