~Earth Hour 2010~

[Ferrrrrre]

*will joing the Earth Hour*

[maplecoast]

More people should be doing this. The amount of people already doing this in one hour a year has saved enough energy to power a third world country. I for one will take part.

[hutchy]

Mar 26, 2010 13:27:45 GMT -5 maplecoast said:

More people should be doing this. The amount of people already doing this in one hour a year has saved enough [glow=red,2,300]energy to power a third world country. I for one will take part[/glow].

I'm kinda guessing that third world countries need very very little electrisity and the energy saved isn't sent to these countries, it is kept by the national grid until it is needed somewhere else. so in reality we are not saving third world countries, not even the environment, godforbid we start talking about global warming.

This is intresting, during these events i run round in my house turning everything that requires electrisity on. Turning everything off will put my house to a standstill and no work would get done, also on a saturday night i have better things to do then sit in a dark room doing absoulutley nothing.

[ItsCarterYo]

Mar 26, 2010 17:51:11 GMT -5 hutchy said:

Mar 26, 2010 13:27:45 GMT -5 maplecoast said:

More people should be doing this. The amount of people already doing this in one hour a year has saved enough [glow=red,2,300]energy to power a third world country. I for one will take part[/glow].

I'm kinda guessing that third world countries need very very little electrisity and the energy saved isn't sent to these countries, it is kept by the national grid until it is needed somewhere else. so in reality we are not saving third world countries, not even the environment, godforbid we start talking about global warming.

This is intresting, during these events i run round in my house turning everything that requires electrisity on. Turning everything off will put my house to a standstill and no work would get done, also on a saturday night i have better things to do then sit in a dark room doing absoulutley nothing.

what a negative post.. they didnt say that the third world countries used much power.. it was just a comparison. also.. i dont know what ur talking about it not being fun, I'm hosting an earth hour party and its gonna b a blast!!! u need to get in the spirit and help the environment troll

[cooltiger413]

I will be doing this. Anyway why does it say 8:30 central time? It says 8:30 local time on the offical website. This would mean it dosn't matter where you live, when its 8:30, you power off.

[hutchy]

Sorry about the post, I just hate these events =) what a cheery person i am

[ItsCarterYo]

Mar 27, 2010 6:25:54 GMT -5 cooltiger413 said:

I will be doing this. Anyway why does it say 8:30 central time? It says 8:30 local time on the offical website. This would mean it dosn't matter where you live, when its 8:30, you power off.

woops. i guess its 8:30 in all places.. ok! well i hope u cam come!!

[olly]

ENVIRONMENT!

Aha! yes, this thing again...

Yeah...I'd rather not,
I've much more fun things to do in that hour...

Sorry atmosphere [or what ever the hell this is supposed to benefit].

As for that "Third world country thing"?
wtf?

[Gerrt]

Okay here is my look at Earth Hour

I think we should not have "Earth Hour".
I bellieve we should have "Earth Minute".
Earth Minute would go like this
For 60 days of the year you would take one minute of of your day and do something for the earth. ie - turning out the lights, picking up garbage, or turning off all things that use power in your home.
My hope with this idea is that people would make it a habit in their lives and then it might turn into two minutes a day then three minutes etc.

What do you think?

[GlowstikGlenn]

I personally think we can keep doing this stuff until were blue in the face but until the governments actually do something to dramatically help these 'third world countries' then you might as well not bother.

But I agree at least we are doing something ourselves to help the world. You never know one day we might need help ourselves.

[ItsCarterYo]

I made this thread and it can be deleted because earth hour has passed.. (i dont think i can delete it) and i accidentally deleted to main post.. so yeah

[mooxim]

Mar 30, 2010 17:09:21 GMT -5 Gerrt said:

Okay here is my look at Earth Hour

I think we should not have "Earth Hour".
I bellieve we should have "Earth Minute".
Earth Minute would go like this
For 60 days of the year you would take one minute of of your day and do something for the earth. ie - turning out the lights, picking up garbage, or turning off all things that use power in your home.
My hope with this idea is that people would make it a habit in their lives and then it might turn into two minutes a day then three minutes etc.

What do you think?

In keeping with the values of Pogotribe I'm gonna say well done for thinking creatively and impossibly big.

It's an interesting idea but I'll tell you why I don't think it will work.

one minute having everything turned off equals several minutes turning thing off and on again and it's difficult enough to get the public to do something like earth hour once in a year, let alone every day.

The big changes needed to combat the climate crisis will only come from things that don't require a lot of conscious effort and don't impede on the public's everyday habits.

The amount of physical work required will almost certainly be counter productive.

I like the analogy of trying to fill a swimming pool. If filling the pool is like combating climate change then what your suggesting is like trying to fill it with a teaspoon. Even if the whole country does it, it's still really impractical and inefficient. What we really need is new technology and big budget solutions. A large hose. I'm not entirely sure what form the large hose takes though.