Turn OFF your lights - 8-9pm tomorrow (Saturday)
Support the Earth Hour initiative tomorrow (Sat 28th) and turn off your lights between 8pm-9pm.
But it will be dark!
I know ... fun eh!? Light candles, play spooky games (I recommend Werewolf) or tell ghost stories - in essence HAVE FUN!
And it's not just about the lights, that's the minimum. If you can turn off anything else then do so - how about turning off the computer!!!
More info:
- Wellington City Council press release
- New Zealand 'Earth Hour' Google news search ...
- Official Earth Hour site
And finally - how do we feel about Christchurch being the official New Zealand Earth Hour rep ... crap eh, it should be Wellington!!
Write to both Kerry Prendergast (Mayor - kerry.prendergast@wcc.govt.nz) and Ray Ahipene-Mercer (Portfolio Leader: Climate Change - ray.ahipene-mercer@wcc.govt.nz) asking for a big push for 2009 - think of the coverage we'll get internationally, all because you all got behind it and asked!
Again, I think I'd rather Wellington focused on public transport instead of tokenism. But I guess that's far too much to hope for...
As I've said before:
Pascal's Wager - applied it looks something like:
- You act as though the environment threat exists.
* If the environment threat exists, you may save the planet: your gain is infinite.
* If the environment threat does not exist, you gain nothing and lose nothing.- You live as though the environment threat does not exist.
* If the environment threat exists, the planet goes to hell in a handbag: your loss is infinite.
* If the environment threat does not exist, you gain nothing and lose nothing.
Well, it's 90% likely that all of the lights (and every appliance in my house apart from my clock radio) will be off anyway at that time, since I'll most likely be out. Does that mean that I have to convince whatever bar I'm in at the time to turn off their lights? Martinis by candlelight: that does sound fun.