Sydney, Australia has just started doing it today (as I write to you in the Pacific Standard Time zone), and more cities are to follow. For 60 minutes tonight, March 28 at 8PM local time, everyone is supposed to shut off their lights and "power down" for an hour.
I don't think that means unplugging your refrigerator or anything like that, more than it means turning off all the lights in the house and not using appliances. Here's the website for details: Earth Hour US - Earth Hour 2008. The event is being sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, here's a link to their site too: WWF - Endangered Species, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Habitats. They have some really slick animal adoption programs available that allow you to take ownership of saving species...definitely worth your time to check out...I adopted a Siberian Amur Leopard for my folks as a $50 gift for the holidays.
Sorry, digressed there. So if you want to put some simple and easy environmental stewardship into action, the Earth Hour is an excellent way to do it!
I hope this starts to become a recurring event. S
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Electicity is a HUGE source of air pollution as coal is such a cheap and abudnant energy soarce for generating electricity. I recently investigated a HVAC system that uses ice generated during 'none peak' hours, (at night) that is later used to cool the building during the day. The real rub is, that at night the majority of our electricity is generated by coal. So in effect you are solving the problem of expensive energy during the day by creating a larger carbon footprint. Thankfully we scrapped the project as the value of cheap cooling was not worth the cost of burning more air polluting coal.
Thanks for the post. I'm using candles tonight.
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