EARTH HOUR - Power if your hands

[BERRY GOOD]

EARTH HOUR

At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour.

OFFICIAL EARTH HOUR VIDEO CLICK HERE
This video will give you a brief description of what earth hour is.

Do your part

OFFICIAL EARTH HOUR WEBSITE

What are your thoughts of earth hour? 
Will you be doing your part?
If you are not taking part is their a reason?

 

[Korasi]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? It is not a good idea. Telling people to turn out the lights for one hour one day will not change anything. Why not make it "Hour of replacing an ordinary light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb"?
Will you be doing your part? No.
If you are not taking part is their a reason? Explained before.

 

[BERRY GOOD]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? It is not a good idea. Telling people to turn out the lights for one hour one day will not change anything. Why not make it "Hour of replacing an ordinary light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb"?
Will you be doing your part? No.
If you are not taking part is their a reason? Explained before.

Thank - you for replying

I still think that if every person in the world was to do this it would make a massive difference, If you do not already have energy efficient light bulbs installed that is a great idea, not only is it helping the climate but will decrease your average monthly energy bills sufficiently.

 

[malakadang]

What are your thoughts of earth hour?
Will you be doing your part?
If you are not taking part is their a reason?

Personally, I support the people participating in Earth hour, I think it's great that people can band together like that

Well TBH, I won't actively be taking part, I'll turn more stuff off than I usually would, however I won't go out of my way to if that makes sense.

Personally If I think that I myself can make a meaningful difference, if even everyone in the world participated in this could make a meaningful difference then I would participate. However If you were to slaughter cows you'd get a better reduction in CO2 emissions than you would turning off your lights.

 

[blazinfasstt]

Thank - you for replying

I still think that if every person in the world was to do this it would make a massive difference, If you do not already have energy efficient light bulbs installed that is a great idea, not only is it helping the climate but will decrease your average monthly energy bills sufficiently.

it is only an hour dude.
you have no idea whether or not it is helping the climate ffs.

all you have is correlational data
that being said, i will not be "doing my part"


i dont like that phrase either. it makes it seem as if someone who does not do this is somehow being selfish by not "doing their part"

 

[PlayerOne]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? There is absoluetly no point for a household to do this since your contribution will be minute. Its directed at large business's which use lots of energy and add pollution to our environment
Will you be doing your part? NO<
If you are not taking part is their a reason? N/A

 

[Karl]

This is not a debateable topic.

Moved to Gen Discussion.

 

[BERRY GOOD]

My lights are now off

 

[fellmc2]

I think it's more of the publicity than actually saving power. Because if you think about it, 1 hour isn't much; it'll save some power short term but then one hour later we're at the same spot.

The point is to get the message across that saving power is important...etc.

 

[JohnK]

Anyone notice the difference on YouTube?

 

[BERRY GOOD]

Anyone notice the difference on YouTube?

I think you-tube look's better with the '' Light option ''

 

[trevinrocksu]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? i think its a good idea to let the statistics show how much energy is used every hour
Will you be doing your part? yes i will be turning all the lights off in my house
If you are not taking part is their a reason?

 

[Life of Sin]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? That the 8:30 world-wide thing is sorta weird, as time zones are all different
Will you be doing your part? Yes, it's a really big thing in New Zealand as we pride ourselves for our clean, green country
If you are not taking part is their a reason? -_^

 

[okkk]

I think 1 hour can definetly make a difference. Thats 1 hour of thousands (possibly) of people turning off their main electricity. Thats enough energy saved to power quite alot. Besides, even if it only makes a small difference, a difference is a difference...right? Lights off in 6 minutes here.

 

[davidh93]

What are your thoughts of earth hour? quite dumb, dont think the organization is good enough
Will you be doing your part? no
If you are not taking part is their a reason? Its 8:30 am my time... why would i have the lights on

 

[kill dank]

I just made fun of my sister earlier today because she was talking for a week about how she wants to do it for school and stuff and then she forgot. Funny shit man.

not enough organization, like davidh93 said. I also forgot about it... otherwise I'm all for helping the environment.