Earth Hour

[StoneHenge]

Earth Hour 2008 will take place on March 29th 2008 at 20.00 your local time wherever you are in the world.

All you have to do is pledge to switch off your lights for one hour.

It is as simple as that.

Earth Hour 2007 was run in Sydney last year. This year, it's global.

For more informatio (run by the WWF), see link below. I'm signed up!

http://www.earthhour.org/

[Planet 24]

Excellent Stonehenge, thank you for letting us know.:)

[Beth]

I can do that for just one hour :yes: do you want to add it to the calender stoney? as I know I will have forgotton by then :doh:

[StoneHenge]

Sounds good Beth! would be nice to see if we could all cope for an hour (I always have my candles on by then, so I have 'Earth hour' every night!

[Isis]

Thanks for letting us know, i will definately have a go at that, although if Hubby is in residence that night it may be that Eastenders will take preference (yuck), but anyway I am trying to go a bit green and only have my standard lamp on and telly, the rest of the house is in darkness.

[Beth]

just to remind you :) and you may have noticed that Google main page is black today....

tonight at 8pm its Earth Hour!

switch off those lights for just one hour and you can make a difference

last year the people of Sydney saved 10.2% of their electicity consumption in that one hour proving that it will work :yes:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

Google is a great way of getting a message out there :thumbs:, for about 10 seconds this morning i was ready to scream at the kids for messing with my homepage :lol:

[Beth]

I was just watching the news and they showed lights going off at sydney opera house, it was quite odd to be honest, all the lights around the city going off :yes: just the street lights in some areas were on

[sussex_dingle]

I'm glad that WWF has taken a lead on this really important topic.

I used to think that they were just a bunch of testosterone fuelled wrestlers, with no thought for the global community.

How wrong I was.

P.S. William Regal - you are the man!!! You're not from Blackpool though.

[er 59]

I will be taking part i can live without lights no problem ;)

[tonica]

I wondered why google had turned black lol then realised why :lol:

Just been telling my 9 year old what we are going to do ... he wasnt impressed !!... so will have to make it more fun for him:rolleyes:


Earth Hour is the brain child of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF);)

[Beth]

battery fairy lights and candles ready here :yes:

wonder if there will be many children concieved later on :whistle: I know that me and a lot of my school friends were all concieved during a series of large power cuts way back when :D no I am not telling you when :D

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

i better get the dinner sorted now :yes: i definitely cant cook by candle light :no:

Beth funnily enough i was born during a series of large power cuts :yes: :lol:

[Beth]

we must be similar ages BM ;) :D

[Isis]

Hey BM & Beth,
You are making me feel old, i can remember trying to do my homework by candle light and also being kicked out of class rooms to go to others that had sun in them, because the heating was off, and the school thought it would be warmer but it was freezing:cold: and mum trying to cook meals around the electric going off, so that we would all have a hot meal and my bro setting fire to his bed with a tea light, and then trying to put it out himself, i think he would have been about 6 at the time.

[tonica]

:eek: :lol:



Looked on the news after 9pm not much on about this :huh: short mention from them , wasnt advertised enough by the looks of things ... not many peoples houses were in darkness round here either from what i could see :(

My youngest enjoyed being without lights in the end , i ended up playing a shadow hand puppet type game with him :rolleyes:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

my kids enjoyed all the candles but then they are trainee pyromaniacs :yes: :lol:

[Beth]

Earth Hour 2009!

http://www.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/earthhour/signup/signup_s.cfm?&reload=true


We want you to be one of a billion people who switch their lights off during WWF’s Earth Hour. This will show the world’s leaders that we care about the planet and want them to act now to tackle climate change.

It’s as simple as the flick of a switch.

On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour – WWF’s Earth Hour.

Some 538 cities from 75 countries have already signed up. In addition, many iconic landmarks will be plunged into darkness, including the Forth Bridge, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff; Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Table Mountain in Cape Town and Sydney Opera House.

I have already signed up :thumbs:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

time to stock upon candles again :yes:. i hope Earth hour gets more publicity this year.

[Beth]

Me too Bonkers mad :yes:

one hour out of our lives without lights isnt such a big deal, we should all do it :yes:

[Planet 24]

Signed up :yes: :thumbs:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

Tonight, 8:30

LIGHTS OFF! (http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/?gclid=CIrrjoqrxpkCFQsMGgodw2DFsg&gclid=CIrrjoqrxpkCFQsMGgodw2DFsg)

[Beth]

I did it :yes: well most of it, as unfortunatly my partner was on call and bang on 8.30pm the on call phone rang, and we had to put the lights on so they could see the emergancy file :rolleyes:
we did have the lights off for at least 45 mins, and a bit after 9.30pm as well :D

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

we did it too :yes:. we did have an incident with a candle, a stupid cat and a slightly singed belly though :lol:

[Beth]

:bigeyes: oh dear! hope the moggy is ok :D

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

shes fine, apart from being an idiot :lol:. she's the type who walks across the hob as soon as you turn it on. completely stupid :yes: