The world switched off it's lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm yesterday to conserve power and to celebrate Earth Hour.
Everyone except me.... I had Earth Half Hour.
I was out, left my living room and back porch light on, and didn't get home until 9pm.... OOPS!
Walking home, I passed windows flickering with candlelight. Street lights were still on in the name of safety, but many people observed the second annual Earth Hour by turning off all unnecessary lights and enjoying the peace and quiet.
We have to look after our beautiful planet.
Symbolic, but it's a start.
You know....I had not heard one word about Earth Hour until this morning on the news....we were out too...lights a blazin while we were gone....hum.
ReplyDeleteHubby was watching T.V. I think there was a hockey game on. So, we didn't observe Earth Hour. I am glad others did, though.
ReplyDeleteAfter a small walk around the neighbourhood, we spent the hour+ next door at my neigbour's backyard fireplace.. sipping something fine. It appeared to me that roughly 35% of the lights were out. Of folks I've talked to about it, most of the men resisted and most of the women insisted. ;)
ReplyDeleteDidn't know a thing about it until after the fact. The only thing I thought of as I watched video of lights going out on tall buildings and monuments was that some plane is going to crash into them now :-)
ReplyDeleteWe were out too and had several of our lights on. Sorry to say we didn't observe it.
ReplyDeleteWe forgot too, although we've generally tried to do better this winter. Trying to remember to turn lights off in a room if we're going to be in another etc.
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We were eating dinner in our hotel in Chicago and they turned off all the lights except emergency ones inside and out. It was very cool. Every little bit counts.
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