Posted on March 2, 2011 by Liviu Lică in Stories & Life
On March the 26th Earth Hour will take place, with the support of the WWF. Back in 2009, together with my family we went to the switch board and flipped the switches for an hour, took out a couple of candles and a bottle of wine and sat down and talked. It was a great experience. We did it as part of the Earth Hour movement.
There is not much you can do without power at night and if you never spent a period of time, voluntarily, without power, I recommend you do it, it will make you see how dependent we are on electricity and through it to all of the resources of the little blue ball we call Earth and home.
On March the 26th we will do this again, we will go to the switch board and flip the switches for an hour, sit down around a candle, have a drink and talk. Hope you will do it too. Hope it will inspire all of us to be more conscious about how much energy we use, how dependent we are on dead dinosaurs and, most of all, I hope it will convince us to take the measures necessary to reduces our footprint.
Posted on March 26, 2009 by Liviu Lică in Stories & Life
THE Hour is getting nearer and nearer, and I’m talking about the Earth Hour. The 28th of March 2009, at 20:30, when you should switch off you lights as a sign that show you give a damn about the blue ball you leave on (talking about Earth). You’ve all heard about Global Warming and seen Al Gore preach about what you can do.
Maybe you switch off your light when you leave the room, turn off the water when you brush your teeth, care about whales that commit suicide. But now you can show you care!
What if you really don’t give a crap? What if you would rather go and watch that game on TV and drink beer an shout and kick and so on? Well, my friend, than you are in luck! If you are a guy, this is the perfect chance to pretend to be sensible and give the love of your life a romantic candle-light diner, and maybe you’ll even get lucky. Sounds better then getting pissed off because those overpaid primadonas we call football players lose again, doesen’t it? It doesen’t matter you could care less about the lights, or Willy the penguin, you score double points with one go: romantic dinner + being sensible.
If you are a chick, than just hint to Prince Charming that he could do something romantic. It will probably work. If you already wanted to turn off the lights, than I can only say that you made a wise choice, my friend!
As a disclaimer – maybe you read my previous post about this and it may seem that I’m joking about it, but I’m not. I’ve been a true believer in nature preservation long before the whole Global Warming thing was a blockbuster. It comes natural to me, an my brothers and my parents. It seems logical not to poop where you eat, in a sort of way. Yes, I will turn off the lights tomorow. But this is just a small drop in the ocean. I try to do something for this planet every day. And this is not because I’m generous human being, it’s because I’m a selfish bastard and I would hate to have to go skiing inside a shopping mall in 20 years.
So be selfish and choose right my friends!
By the way I challenge you to come up with other good reasons to turn off the lights on the 28th of March 2009 at 20:30 for 60 minutes!
Posted on March 26, 2009 by Liviu Lică in Stories & Life
All right, so Earth Hour is closing quickly on us. If you don’t know what Earth Hour is than you should find out. Check Eart Hour‘s website here.
The idea is simple. on the 28th of March 2009, at 8:30 PM just switch off your lights for 60 minutes aka 1 hour. Do that and you show you give a damn. That’s the idea.
I will do it and I’m for all this kind of things, but I don’t really see the grand finaly of this. I understand that it’s a way to draw attention but hey, let me tell you a secret: if people are ignorant asses than you can bet whatever you want that they will be so touched by this that will actually drink another beer in honor of the Earth Hour.
I hope I’m wrong, but I really don’t see it people doing it at a massive scale. Look at their own videos. Except for Sydney, in major cities very few domestic lights were actually turned off. Another thing that bugs me is what’s the point? It’s a one time thing. You won’t save Flufy the polar bear and Squeeze the blue wail with 60 minutes, once a year. And yes, I get the idea that it’s a sign for the leaders and for all humanity. But I think that we do more by switching off the light when leaving the room, everyday.
And one more cynical ignorant and negative remark – I will laugh my ass off if people here in Bucharest really turn the lights off on a massive enough scale and because of complete coordination with the power companies everything will go BOOM.
But all these behind, it may not look like, but this blog and me and I hope that every one of those 5 people that wonder by chance on it will support this. There are many good reasons to do it and it will be fun!
