Earth Hour Tonight 8-9 PM Local Time - Wild Texas Forums: Parks, Travel & Recreation

Shannon · 03-29-2008, 08:47 AM

Cities mark Earth Hour -- a single hour of energy conservation.

Sydney, Australia is among world's first city to "go dark":
First cities go dark for Earth Hour - CNN.com

Google's home page is black to mark the event, today, as well.
Google - Earth Hour

Anyone can do this... turn off all your lights from 8 to 9 PM. Light up some candles -- pretend it's a power outage! -- turn on the camp lantern, play some scrabble or Monopoly, look at the stars (if it's not cloudy) or make up stories about the people that lived where you are, thousands of years ago, etc.

Cities mark Earth Hour -- a single hour of energy conservation -- today.
Sydney, Australia is among world's first city to "go dark":
First cities go dark for Earth Hour - CNN.com

Google's home page is black to mark the event, today, as well.
Google - Earth Hour

Anyone can do this... turn off all your lights from 8 to 9 PM. Light up some candles -- pretend it's a power outage! -- turn on the camp lantern, play some scrabble or Monopoly, look at the stars (if it's not cloudy) or make up stories about the people that lived where you are, thousands of years ago, etc.

YouTube - Earth Hour 2008 vids

Shannon · 03-29-2008, 11:03 PM

So, did you do anything?

I was visiting my parents and we were watching a movie at 8 PM, but we turned off all the lights, lit candles and enjoyed the movie by candlelight. Mother Nature provided a bit of her own lights, anyway, with lightning far off in the distance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CNN

U.S. cities go dark for Earth Hour

From Rome's Colosseum to the Sydney Opera House to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization have gone dark for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the waste of electricity and the threat of climate change. full story

JohnK · 03-30-2008, 04:25 PM

We did as you did; lit candles, turned out all the lights, but finished watching a movie.

We took a look around our immediate neighborhood, which included looking across a canyon out back at another neighborhood, and were disappointed to see so many lights on. I estimate that less than 25% of homes in our area were dark.

JohnK

srds · 03-31-2008, 01:08 PM

We cooked kabobs in new fire ring on patio,then Dd tried to teach me how to use pie irons, did'nt burn mine this time.Only a few people joined in but we had a nice time enjoying the fire.

srds

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