Earth Hour

betterlife

have signed up and emailing everyone i now to do the same

hamstercheeks_2

My boy was telling us allabout Earth Hour on Friday and we decided to take part by switching all lights off. So we all sat in the living room for an hour on Saturday night, just candles..................

wondered why no neighbours were taking part.

Discovered it's THIS Saturday coming:rolleyes:

still i suppose we saved an hours worth of energy lol:D

is anyone else taking part this weekend?

nic1lou2

Hi hamstercheeks - loved your post , couldn't stop laughing at the thought of you all sitting there wondering why no one else was joining in!!!:rotfl:

Yes we are going to join in this saturday - just panicking that I will forget to switch off though and trying to dream up a way to remind myself!!!!

Are you going to try again this week???

Penelope_Penguin

There's already a thread running on the Green and Ethical Board on this As it's a better fit there than on Old Style, I'll move this and merge it.

Penny. x

hamstercheeks_2

nic1lou2 wrote: »

Hi hamstercheeks - loved your post , couldn't stop laughing at the thought of you all sitting there wondering why no one else was joining in!!!:rotfl:

Yes we are going to join in this saturday - just panicking that I will forget to switch off though and trying to dream up a way to remind myself!!!!

Are you going to try again this week???

Yes definitely this week. will be interesting to see who in the street is joining in lol

:T

hamstercheeks_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

There's already a thread running on the Green and Ethical Board on this As it's a better fit there than on Old Style, I'll move this and merge it.

Penny. x

thanks Penny didn't realise :rolleyes:

hamstercheeks_2

nic1lou2 wrote: »

Hi hamstercheeks - loved your post , couldn't stop laughing at the thought of you all sitting there wondering why no one else was joining in!!!:rotfl:

Yes we are going to join in this saturday - just panicking that I will forget to switch off though and trying to dream up a way to remind myself!!!!

Are you going to try again this week???

We can all remind each other THIS week!!

rosieben

ceridwen wrote: »

Well - I was all gung-ho to do it - then went further onto that website and saw that Richard Branson was there advocating it - at which point I turned a bit sceptical (as in Richard Branson - errr....of the Virgin Airlines....) ...

Ceridwen, if we waited for Richard Branson to save the planet we'd be in deep trouble....

thescouselander

Is the really a good idea? To me, the idea of trying to get the entire population to simultainously switch off their electrical appliances / lights etc and then switch them back on again sounds very irresponsible.

I can imagine that if a significant proportion of the population actually did this it could cause the power companies problems. Dont forget that if this action causes part of the grid to trip (even locally) it could cause someone to have an accident that could be serious.

Its a good job most people will be sensible enough to not get involved with this stunt.

skylight

My 7yo is (at the moment) very anti-pollutants and gets upset about the Polar Bears dying.

Anyway, 8pm is past her bedtime, so I have suggested that we have another Earth Hour for her so she can join in - just so she feels as if she is doing something. She was happy with that idea!