Earth Hour

[skier-hughes]

Wasn't it "climbing off Dusty Bin"

 

[Jon Maine]

Wasn't it "climbing off Dusty Bin"

3 2 1 and in for a good Ted Rodgering, you are probably correct

 

[biffvernon]

Right peeps, if you've all finished with hijacking my thread, can we get back to making sure that we're all involved in some suitable action tomorrow. Lots of ideas here: http://www.earthhour.org/home/.
I'll be at the Woodman in Louth, listening to music by candlelight.

 

[Lime]

I'll be at the Woodman in Louth, listening to music by candlelight.

But I bet the pub has electric heating all over the place and cook with electric too.

 

[biffvernon]

Doh! It's a gesture. And I'll be getting there in an internal combustion engined fossil fuelled horseless carriage and drinking beer brought from a brewery about half a mile away. Now I'm off out to plant some veg. Organic. No tractor fuel employed.

 

[Lime]

Doh! It's a gesture.

Mentioning Lincolnshire reminds me of King Canute making his gesture to the waves.

 

[countrycott]

So why does it stop at turning lights off, rather than all electricity?

 

[biffvernon]

Doh! It's a gesture.

Mentioning Lincolnshire reminds me of King Canute making his gesture to the waves.

The story about King Cnut and the tides is probably apochryphal, written by Henry of Huntingdon a century after Cnut's time.

 

[AMc]

So why does it stop at turning lights off, rather than all electricity?

I think the families of people on life support might object

The idea (if I understand it correctly) is to produce a visible and measurable impact. If you look(ed) around during earth hour you should have (not) seen then building 'bathed' in darkness. Turing off the telly, heating, dishwasher hasn't got the same visible impact. Turning off everything would also work, but killing the lights will drop grid consumption enough for the national grid to see the effect.

 

[wobs]

It might also reduce light pollution. But I won't get my hopes up.

 

[Flyfisher]

Turning off everything would also work, but killing the lights will drop grid consumption enough for the national grid to see the effect.

Yes, I looked for that on the National Grid website but their demand graphs don't seem to be working.

 

[worms]

So why does it stop at turning lights off, rather than all electricity?

Well, we just switched it all off at the meter and had a family hour playing cards by candle light round the kitchen table - strangely reminiscent of the miners' strike and the three-day week!

 

[Penners]

I wonder whether the birth-rate will spike in nine months time! :shock:

 

[biffvernon]

Yes, I looked for that on the National Grid website but their demand graphs don't seem to be working.

Oh, they switched it off for Earth Hour.