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29 March 2008

Tonight is Earth Hour Turn out your lights between 8 and 9 p.m.

post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 12:07 | 17 comments

Wonder what kind of consumption surge rolls through the grid as Earth Hour ends.

posted by BitterOldPunk 29 March | 12:35

Unfortunately, I doubt that participation will be heavy enough to make much of a difference, BOP.

posted by Ardiril 29 March | 13:46

Especially if people don't also unplug their refrigerators and shut down their electronics. Still, the intentions seem good.

posted by box 29 March | 13:55

Good intentions or not, Google freaked my shit right out this morning. I thought I'd broken the gf's computer when it came up like that.

posted by mudpuppie 29 March | 13:59

8 and 9 in every time zone?

posted by danf 29 March | 14:02

freaked my shit right out this morning

OK, new phrase. . must figure out how to work it in.

posted by danf 29 March | 14:04

Blackle is like that all the time, pups. It's just a black Google. :)

posted by youngergirl44 29 March | 15:04

Danf, I'm not sure where or when I first came across "freak my shit" but I use it all the time now. It's surprisingly easy to "work in."

posted by CitrusFreak12 29 March | 17:05

OK. Mine are off. Now what?

posted by netbros 29 March | 18:58

Now dance.

posted by ethylene 29 March | 19:17

Earth hour is over here now. Thanks to ethylene, I danced. Did I save the world? Can you tell?

posted by netbros 29 March | 20:01

We lit a buncha teacandles and played with our new wind-up powered weather radio. The cats thought the whole thing was terribly mysterious.

posted by chewatadistance 29 March | 20:47

Shoot! I forgot to do this. Most of the lights were off, but we were playing Buzz The Mega Quiz on the PS3. Does that still count, that my TV was on? I would think not. I'm a lights off kind of person anyway. It makes me nervous to have lights on that aren't in use. Not because I'm some kind of environmental do-gooder (which I want to be and think is good) but because my parents were so strict about not wasting electricity and water. It's ingrained.

posted by LoriFLA 29 March | 20:48

So that's what the google thing was all about. I doubt I would have ever associated it if I hadn't read it here.

posted by Ardiril 29 March | 22:23

Yeah, ardiril, they have a little note right there on the front page. But I didn't see it the first couple times. It doesn't exactly jump out.

posted by mudpuppie 29 March | 22:25

Well, how about that! I guess the only thing that registers for me on google anymore is the search box.

posted by Ardiril 29 March | 23:13

Yeah, we did this. What a wast of time. They would have been better off not doing it and saving all the carbon they created by planning and promoting this event. I must admit that I did laugh when I saw on TV a story about how, if you burn standard wax candles, you release more carbon into the atmosphere than leaving your lights on, so that's a positive, I think.

posted by dg 30 March | 07:19

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