What Activities Can I Do When I Turn Off the Lights for Earth Hour? (It's Baaa-ck!)

Mother Nature Network ^ | March 19, 2010 | Chanie Kirschener

[Stosh]

“What Activities Can I Do When I Turn Off the Lights for Earth Hour? “

Dear Earth Hour participant: In answer to your question, I’d suggest as a possible activity that you remove your head from the orifice in which it’s currently inserted, and see if you notice any difference.

[magooey]

Point your lights skyward,last year they said they would be taking satellite pictures.

How can we curse in Morse code?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Don’t forget to turn the heat on high and open the doors!

[Grizzled Bear]

What a bunch of pikers! Most of North Korea’s people do this every night!

[nomad]

Yes,say “Up your`s” by turning on as many lights as you can.Should have seen my house,lit like a christmas tree!Even my halogen work lamps out on the porch,shinning skyward.

[Freedom Frayed]

Or drive around with BRIGHTS on, and interior lights too! Or, if you’re in your (well lit) home, fire up the grill, invite neighbors over and serve some brats and burgers to build a conservative community coalition, and don’t forget the fireworks, just to light up the sky and confuse those sitting “in the dark!”

Share your thoughts about this administration and the havoc they’ve wreaked on our lives and families, and collect names and numbers to plan for future “events” together, and to build your very own conservative community organization!

[Tzimisce]

....isn’t burning candles bad for the environment?

[upcountryhorseman]

I’ll carry on as usual. We do our own power using solar
panels, industrial batteries and a generator.

[exnavy]

We turn every light in the house ALL DAY LONG !

[ctdonath2]

Another FReeper noted The idiots don't realize it takes more energy to turn those lights on again in an hour than it would of used just to keep them on.

[Cvengr]

Promoting a public campaign to switch off all electrical power simultaneously is a very stupid idea. It’s difficult to balance phases and loads throughout distribution systems when people do this, making it very likely that the electrical grid might fail.

It’s sort of like having everybody in a high rise building go to one floor and start jumping up and down at one time, or everybody leaning on one side of a ship simultaneously.

A good way to promote catastrophic failure. An accident looking for a place to happen.

BTW, once its done one year, their power rates for that same period will be statistically influenced, so that if it isn’t also artificially observed the following year, the power company might charge a higher utility rate for power usage in that same period the following year.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,
March 27, 2010 ! Force of Darkness “Earth Hour” Challenged by Power of Light “Human Achievement Hour”

CEI Announces 2nd Annual Celebration of Human Achievement

Washington, D.C., March 19, 2010—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading free-market think tank, will celebrate the Second Annual “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Saturday, March 27, 2010. The one-hour celebration coincides with “Earth Hour,” an hour in which governments, individuals, and corporations will dim or shut off lights to symbolically renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology.

“Earth Hour’s creators suggest that human inventions and technology are a problem, but we see the ability to create and innovate as the ultimate resource,” says Human Achievement Hour founder and CEI Policy Analyst Michelle Minton. “Environmental challenges will not be solved by turning off our lights and symbolically hiding in the dark,” Minton added. “If anything, we should be looking to technology and innovation to help solve environmental problems.”

Just like last year, countless individuals, organizations, agencies and businesses will be celebrating Human Achievement Hour without even realizing it. Just by not shutting down their lights, operations and stores, they will be acknowledging that productive effort and the pursuit of happiness are a better alternative than sitting in the dark.

In addition to the observance of Human Achievement Hour, wherever people may find themselves around the world, CEI will be hosting a happy hour event outside of Washington, D.C.

Human Achievement Happy Hour
Saturday, March 27, 2010
7:30pm-10:00pm

Rira Irish Pub and Restaurant
2915 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia
703-248-9888

MORE RESOURCES: Watch the video “Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,” follow us on Twitter and join the Facebook group.

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CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. For more information about CEI, please visit our website at www.cei.org.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Ira Einhorn took the life of one woman, while the movement that he had a hand in founding seeks to steal the life from all of us.”

BUMP!

[norge]

My lights went on full blaze at 8:30 sharp and went off at precisely 9:30.

When the lights are on, my house can be seen for almost 2 miles, and normally they are never on.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Go to the parking lot of the local enviroweenie org. & burn a gasoline soaked tire 8*)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Quit confusing the EcoWeenies with Reality, LOL!

I’m off to cruise the Greenie Boards to see if this made one smattering of a difference to ‘Mudder Ert’.