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their lights tonight for EARTH HOUR?
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their lights tonight for EARTH HOUR? wow...i was just reading about it about 3 seconds ago on bbc |
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You know it!!!!!!!
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when
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I'm just keeping mine off because I can't afford to pay my bill.
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their lights tonight for EARTH HOUR?  is that?
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Edited by
MelodyGirl
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Sat 03/28/09 03:53 PM
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I feel as though I converve year around.
I live alone and I never leave my lights on -- even if I'm in the room (sometimes). I am a candle freak! In honor of Earth Hour, I will turn off my outside light though. I use the CFLs and only 57 watts around the house -- a more effcient bulb to the normal 60 watt. I'm glad to see municipalities cooperating; Egypt in darking the pyramids, and Paris in darkening the Eifle Tower, etc. 
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Edited by
MelodyGirl
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Sat 03/28/09 03:52 PM
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Details:
It's lights out for Earth Hour 2009 Last Updated: Saturday, March 28, 2009 | 6:19 PM ET CBC News People around the globe hoping to bring attention to climate change turned off their lights for 60 minutes on on Saturday during the second annual Earth Hour. The World Wildlife Fund is encouraging people to shut off non-essential lights — or at the very least dim them — from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time. The conservation organization's offices in Sydney, Australia, introduced Earth Hour to raise awareness of climate change. Nearly 4,000 municipalities in 88 countries were expected to take part, the WWF said. Last year, only 400 cities participated; Sydney held a solo event in 2007. A number of key landmarks will fade to black, including Toronto's CN Tower, New York's Empire State Building, and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Renowned landmarks go dark Australia's famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the first major city to plunge itself into darkness. China participated for the first time, cutting the lights at Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium and Water Cube, the most prominent 2008 Olympic venues. In Egypt, the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx were darkened. In Greece, floodlights at the Acropolis in Athens were switched off and an outdoor concert was staged on an adjacent hill, which many Athenians approached in a candlelight procession. In Paris, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral were among 200 monuments and buildings that went dark. The Eiffel Tower, however, only extinguished its lights for five minutes for security reasons as visitors were on the tower, WWF France spokesman Pierre Chasseray said. More than 250 municipalities across Canada have pledged support, and almost 70 public events are planned, World Wildlife Fund Canada said. A recent survey suggested 81 per cent of Canadians were expected to turn off their lights for the hour, the group said. "Turning off our lights for an hour isn't going to solve climate change, but what it does do is show individuals that they can make a difference in the fight against global warming and sends a really strong message to world leaders that action is needed now," said Tara Wood of WWF Canada. |
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K;let me check
 Oh! yeah;I don't have lights in my den.Phew! 
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Heck no. I am lighting everything up instead!
My little protest against the overcompensation of the green movement. |
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you should turn off your monitor and tv too
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I will do it
but that is eastern time right? |
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being blessed with day-like night vision, i usually have just candles burning, the rest are LED's, which a fifty watt bulb only burns 3 watts of power. the thirty-five watt burns 1.5 watts......good way to go.
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I'm gonna turn off all my lights and watch it on my 57 inch plasma screen by candle light
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 does that mean I have to turn my computer off also
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Edited by
Atlantis75
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Sat 03/28/09 04:04 PM
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you should turn off your monitor and tv too actually I heard, all those little pilot lights..called "vampire lights"...little LED things on everything that glows either red even on switches and extention cords..If you'd add up the power used up by those..it's considerable. Here: SAN FRANCISCO--As you walk from room to room in your house in the dark, you may suddenly become aware of them -- red or green glows from tiny little monsters that lurk in various corners of your home. They live in coffee makers, microwave ovens, rice cookers, computers, DVD players, altars to ancestors and electric toothbrushes. These tiny "vampire lights" are collectively sucking energy out of your sockets and money out of your pockets, adding up to 10 to 15 percent of your electricity bill. "Electricity bills are a large part of people's budgets," says Wally McGuire, executive director of the state-funded energy efficiency campaign Flex Your Power. "It's a cycle of use, and we must change our habits." If your average monthly bill is $90 a month, 10 percent is $9 a month or $108 a year spent just on those tiny lights. Until recently, the largest single energy user was the refrigerator. Refrigeration technology has improved so much in recent years that new Energy Star-qualified refrigerators cost about $150 less a year to run than older models. Now, it's the hoards of electronics that are the main energy suckers. Digital cameras, iPods, PDAs, personal computers -- all these items must be plugged in to recharge. The U.S. Census estimates that in 2003 about 62 percent of households had at least one computer and 55 percent had access to the Internet in their home. Jay Luo, who is a senior project manager for Customer Energy Efficiency at PG&E, decided to measure how energy is used in his own home. Using the meter and his expertise, he found that 20 percent of his household energy was spent on these "vampire lights." http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=b870a2cc925dac0b212f73494c5cee10 |
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I'm gonna turn off all my lights and watch it on my 57 inch plasma screen by candle light mine is 52"....wanna share?
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Edited by
MelodyGirl
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Sat 03/28/09 04:05 PM
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I will do it
but that is eastern time right? The article I posted says 'your local time'. As long as during one hour, around the globe, everyone participates, I don't think synchronicity is the goal. An hour is an hour of conservation even if at different times. |
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I will do it
but that is eastern time right? The article I posted says 'your local time'. So I have two more hours...
I will do it
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I turn stuff off all the time
don't need a special day to do it I am the one that goes around turning off lights and unplugging things that are soaking up electricity... just call me the Unplug Queen 
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