Earth Hour 2009

[prateek.singla]

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. From the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the London Eye to the Las Vegas strip, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries planned to join in the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event, a time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Involvement in the effort has exploded since last year’s Earth Hour, which drew participation from 400 cities after Sydney held a solo event in 2007. Interest has spiked ahead of planned negotiations on a new global warming treaty in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December. The last global accord, the Kyoto Protocol, is set to expire in 2012.

I'm joining the campaign. All you have to do is just turn off your lights for one hour.
I'm hoping everyone is planning to do the same.

[Samail]

I'm in.

[minmay]

Heh, our lights are off at that time anyway =P

[Zwaken]

I'm joining the campaign.
Games ruined my definition of campaign. Now whenever someone mentions the word, I think of Halo single player.

If I had my own house, I would do it, but if I told my parents to do it, they'd probably just look at me weird. :D

[blissturd]

I will turn all my lights on in that hour just to make up for all the lights that will be out.

[User]

Yeah i'm in, Only thing on will be my computer.

[TH155]

One thing that hasn't been said, i'm probably doing it, but the electrical usage doubles in the TWO hours after from everything starting up, so it's kinda counter-productive.

I'm doing it, but not turning things off, dimming them.

[Samail]

Everything in your house has a dimmer, does it?


Also, I doubt that everyone is going to power everything on at the exact same time for that exact reason.
Besides, I doubt everyone'll be staring at their clocks in the last few minutes of the event.

Stating that because turning everything on, spread out over two hours, seems unlikely to cause that much of a power spike.

[TH155]

hovering at double usage for things that where not on before

[The Pryomaniac]

Games ruined my definition of campaign. Now whenever someone mentions the word, I think of Halo single player.

If I had my own house, I would do it, but if I told my parents to do it, they'd probably just look at me weird. :D

Dude I am so with you!

My family is to lazy and ignorant to turn of everything for one hour, in 10-20 minutes they would get bored and turn everything back on. If my brother's fan is off he'll turn it back on for absolutely no reason. Yeah, so I can't.

[Everlast]

I'll turn my lights off for 7 hours while I'm sleep. :)

[Samail]

Currently my monitor is the only light source in the house.
(Besides all the LEDs everywhere. :rolleyes:)

[Leon]

"Earth Hour"? That's actually a real thing?

I'm tempted to designate an awareness day to raise support for the growing overabundance of awareness days.

[Everlast]

That's thinking outside the box. :D

[DavidG]

That's thinking outside the box. :D

hopefully it will gonna works for all.

I did switch off for 2 hours.
http://www.photosnag.com/img/3568/n09x0302vnsn/clear.gif

[flankattack]

I didn't do it, the Warriors (Auckland Rugby League Team) were playing.

[Zwaken]

hopefully it will gonna works for all.http://www.photosnag.com/img/3568/n09x0302vnsn/clear.gif

Probably the worst sentence I've read or heard this week. :o

[Samail]

Keeping whether or not English is their first language in mind, Zwaken.

@flank: You just had to switch the lights off, not your entire house.

Currently my monitor is the only light source in the house.
(Besides all the LEDs everywhere. )

[Zwaken]

Oh yeah...Other people...Forgot about everyone else. :P

[Everlast]

@flank: You just had to switch the lights off, not your entire house.

There are lights inside the TV. :D

[Samail]

Indeed.

Currently my monitor is the only light source in the house.
(Besides all the LEDs everywhere.)
(Yes I know they are not LEDs but you get the point. :rolleyes:)