Earth Hour

madameshawshank · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:44 am Post subject: Earth Hour

do you know of the Earth Hour concept? it began last year in Sydney..the idea of turning off lights for an hour...

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/2008/03/29/1206207496049.html

our house was in darkness....

have you seen photos from space...of Earth...with the massive glow of lights of the big cities at night...(those other moments of non-Earth Hours Wink

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David · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

Well, my city of Ottawa is going hog wild with earth hour! Just to be nice I'm going to unplug the window display lights when I leave work today, but I draw the line at turning out my house lights---since no one can see the place anyway!
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madameshawshank · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

'hog wild'...now that's descriptive David!
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msue · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 368

We turned off our house lights for the hour. During that time we had dinner and played a little Scrabble by candlelight. It was fun!

There didn't appear to be wide participation here, but maybe it will catch on more next year.

madameshawshank · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:56 am Post subject:

msue, all things are seeds to begin with...Scrabble by candlelight..oh I'm there in a nanosecond!
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msue · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 368

Madame, you are welcome to play Scrabble at our house anytime! But be warned...I have no shame in running a victory lap around the table, carrying a candle above my head!!

For some reason my spousal unit did not see the humor.

p.s. It helps to get a Q, U, and a blank tile poised exactly next to a Triple Word Score square! Very Happy

emilyj · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 184 Location: London, UK

It's a nice concept I think. I was going to do Earth hour but then we had a power blackout from 9am that morning and the lights finally came back on just in time for Earth hour Smile

gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Will this result in a mini baby boom, come December?