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City to douse lights Saturday for Earth Hour [to fight global warming]
Boston Globe ^ | 03/26/10

Posted on 03/26/2010 9:42:20 PM PDT by freespirited

Cambridge will turn off all nonessential lights in municipal buildings for one hour Saturday, starting at 8:30 p.m., in support of Earth Hour.

Turning out the lights for Earth Hour is intended to serve as a call for action on climate change and to symbolize a positive impact can be made by working together.

The city will turn out non-essential lights for one hour, and residents are encouraged to do the same Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

This year is the third year of the Earth Hour event which attracted more than 80 million participants in the U.S. last year, and nearly a billion people around the world, as lights dimmed on such global icons as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sydney’s Opera House, the Great Pyramids of Giza and New York’s Empire State Building.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bluezones; cambridge; climatechange; dopeydems; earthhour; envirowackos; globalwarming
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Well isnt that special.
1 posted on 03/26/2010 9:42:20 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited

I’m a-gonna turn every light in the house on, just to do my part to make up for it!


2 posted on 03/26/2010 9:43:36 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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Last year, I turned on every light in the house.


3 posted on 03/26/2010 9:44:17 PM PDT by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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Damned idiots! The power companies will generate the power anyway. It just won’t be used. It will be wasted.


4 posted on 03/26/2010 9:44:49 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: freespirited
lol...yes that is very special

I think this is the day that Rush turns every light on in his house and leaves them on all day and throughout the night! LMAO!

5 posted on 03/26/2010 9:45:40 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Control the American people? Herding cats would be easier.)
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To: Oceander

I did that last year and will this year too.


6 posted on 03/26/2010 9:46:17 PM PDT by SUSSA
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>>I’m a-gonna turn every light in the house on, just to do my part to make up for it!<<

They have LITTLE KIDS pushing this crap on some stations. It is as evil as the Nazi Youth for obama — singer and paramilitary troups.

I, too will turn on every light in the house, turn on the A/C and open the windows, then go down and fire up the car and turn ITS lights on— headlights and dome light (my employer pays for gas).


7 posted on 03/26/2010 9:47:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Tagline lost -- anyone seen it?)
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Given the rise of crime in my area due to President Obama’s economy, there’s no way I’m turning off lights for an hour.


8 posted on 03/26/2010 9:47:27 PM PDT by FourPeas (servantscenter.org -- Jesus' hands and feet on the streets serving those in need)
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To: freespirited

Better to vote out liberals than curse the darkness.


9 posted on 03/26/2010 9:47:36 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: freespirited

Bumping around in the dark is no way to go through life.


10 posted on 03/26/2010 9:47:45 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (He's just a clueless hump. A dangerous clueless hump.)
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Aren’t most non-essential lights off in municipal buildings on Sat night anyway? If not, they’re wasteing electricity. But what the heck....taxpayers pay the bill!


11 posted on 03/26/2010 9:48:45 PM PDT by lonestar (Better Obama picks his nose than our pockets!)
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I’m spending all day smoking meat. Burning lots o carbon.


12 posted on 03/26/2010 9:49:07 PM PDT by Stentor
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Yeah.....

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/letters/89301932.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU

I’m going to throw on the floods in the driveway and clean guns on the tailgate.....


13 posted on 03/26/2010 9:49:21 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Enough!)
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To: freespirited

Ringing church bells also keeps lightening away.


14 posted on 03/26/2010 9:49:37 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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"The city will turn out non-essential lights for one hour..."

If they are "non-essential," why are they on in the first place?

Don't they turn their lights off at home?

Bunch of morons.

15 posted on 03/26/2010 9:50:03 PM PDT by Cobra64
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I’ll burn a tire in their honor.


16 posted on 03/26/2010 9:51:24 PM PDT by eddie willers
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I’m gonna turn off all of my lights from noon till two pm. There, I’m a real ecofreak!


17 posted on 03/26/2010 9:51:37 PM PDT by matthew fuller (obama- rapist of the USA- "Bend over bitches, I won the election".)
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I am turning off my lights....

and burning tires in my backyard.

18 posted on 03/26/2010 9:53:53 PM PDT by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: Cobra64
If they are "non-essential," why are they on in the first place?

Because it's the government.

19 posted on 03/26/2010 9:53:57 PM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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Precious....


20 posted on 03/26/2010 9:54:03 PM PDT by texmexis best
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