Earth Hour 2010
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Earth Hour 2010
What are you doing for Earth Hour this year ?
http://www.earthhour.org
P.S. Mods/techies How about a widget in with the ads?
http://www.earthhour.org
P.S. Mods/techies How about a widget in with the ads?
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
Luckily this coincides with my bedtime
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
We turned everything we could off last year, sat by candlelight and played Pass The Pigs. At 9.30pm, himself was dying to turn the TV back on - turned it on, saw what was on, and turned it back off again.
I'm busily trying to promote this and, I'm afraid, failing miserably. Fed up of hearing excuses as to why it can't be done. It's not like they are saying 'turn everything off', it's only your lights.
Mind you, the only light on in our whole house at the moment is the side light next to me, and I'll be turning that off in a minute because Mr 'I don't know what a jumper is' has just put the bloody three bar fire on. ALL THREE BARS! My attempts to disable two bars has, therefore, been unsuccessful.
Fed up to the back teeth of trying to explain - without being preachy and sanctimonious - why it wouldn't kill people to turn their lights off for an hour. Fed up of people denying the concept of climate change, or human involvement in climate change, of people only thinking about their own comfort.
Maybe if I said 'Send hubby to the pub, put the kids in bed, and then turn off your lights, light some candles round the bath and have a candlelit scented bath for an hour' they'd listen - because then it would be about them indulging themselves.
I'm busily trying to promote this and, I'm afraid, failing miserably. Fed up of hearing excuses as to why it can't be done. It's not like they are saying 'turn everything off', it's only your lights.
Mind you, the only light on in our whole house at the moment is the side light next to me, and I'll be turning that off in a minute because Mr 'I don't know what a jumper is' has just put the bloody three bar fire on. ALL THREE BARS! My attempts to disable two bars has, therefore, been unsuccessful.
Fed up to the back teeth of trying to explain - without being preachy and sanctimonious - why it wouldn't kill people to turn their lights off for an hour. Fed up of people denying the concept of climate change, or human involvement in climate change, of people only thinking about their own comfort.
Maybe if I said 'Send hubby to the pub, put the kids in bed, and then turn off your lights, light some candles round the bath and have a candlelit scented bath for an hour' they'd listen - because then it would be about them indulging themselves.
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
Dear Marshlander,
Followed the link in your posting. Got to the site only to find an "Official Partner" is Coca Killer!!!!!!!! Without wishing to denigrate the idea (which is wonderful) I do wish they'd be more careful about the company they keep.
Anyway, our lights will be off,
Love and Peace
Jim
Followed the link in your posting. Got to the site only to find an "Official Partner" is Coca Killer!!!!!!!! Without wishing to denigrate the idea (which is wonderful) I do wish they'd be more careful about the company they keep.
Anyway, our lights will be off,
Love and Peace
Jim
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
I'm hoping to have a few friends round for an hour of acoustic music by candlelight.
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
Can't believe I haven't heard of this before...but sounds like a good idea, so I will definately be keeping it.
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
Lights out candles going,puter off etc. a nice time to sit by the fire and reflect, there's a facebook group too for those who do
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
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Maybe if I said 'Send hubby to the pub, put the kids in bed, and then turn off your lights, light some candles round the bath and have a candlelit scented bath for an hour' they'd listen - because then it would be about them indulging themselves.
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OMG - what a fantastic idea.
I did the earth hour last year and no-one in our house noticed.
We regularly have 'earth hours' here due to the number of power cuts over winter and have come to cherish them as together time - candlelit card games with nibbles, or ghost stories with a glass of wine (obviously not wine for the teenager) - she tells the most gruesome stories!
In the summer we spend our evenings outside, nothing left on in the house, just candles on the terrace outside.
I did this last year and no-one in our house noticed.
Maybe if I said 'Send hubby to the pub, put the kids in bed, and then turn off your lights, light some candles round the bath and have a candlelit scented bath for an hour' they'd listen - because then it would be about them indulging themselves.
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OMG - what a fantastic idea.
I did the earth hour last year and no-one in our house noticed.
We regularly have 'earth hours' here due to the number of power cuts over winter and have come to cherish them as together time - candlelit card games with nibbles, or ghost stories with a glass of wine (obviously not wine for the teenager) - she tells the most gruesome stories!
In the summer we spend our evenings outside, nothing left on in the house, just candles on the terrace outside.
I did this last year and no-one in our house noticed.
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
8.30 tonight!
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
We didn'tdo anything here, we try to be mindful ALL year as Im sure you guys do to.
What concerns me most about this Earth Hour is that the vast majority of people think that for them one hour a year is the total sum of their energy saving and in their eyes they've done their bit!
What concerns me most about this Earth Hour is that the vast majority of people think that for them one hour a year is the total sum of their energy saving and in their eyes they've done their bit!
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I wish I could believe it did!
Couple of power outtages here apparently when the lights went back on
Couple of power outtages here apparently when the lights went back on
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
I'm sorry to say I fell asleep on the settee yesterday evening, and woke up at 9:15pm, TV still on, lights still on, everything, so I pretty much missed Earth Hour. However, my ongoing commitment to wandering around the house turning things off after everyone still stands. And this year I aim to work on remembering to make my coffee after I have boiled the kettle just once.
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Re: Earth Hour 2010
I'm inclined to agree with you. We don't do earth hour.. but try to be thoughtful about usage all year round.Bonniegirl wrote:We didn'tdo anything here, we try to be mindful ALL year as Im sure you guys do to.
What concerns me most about this Earth Hour is that the vast majority of people think that for them one hour a year is the total sum of their energy saving and in their eyes they've done their bit!
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