Around the globe at this hour - whenever this hour hit or will hit, lights go out. From Australia, Greece, Thailand, to Poland, Ireland to ... Google, the lights have gone out. Google blackened its normally white page to black for the hour.
Oh what savings, now pat yourselves on the back and give it another go.
Here is a suggestion and one that would accomplish much more than the empty gesture of EARTH HOUR.
Google - leave your page black ALL THE TIME.
Sydney Music House and all other earth landmarks - DIM your lights EVERY DAY. Turn them off earlier and turn them on later EVERY NIGHT.
Office Buildings - cause all offices that can possible do so, to have their lights on dimmers and or resort to minimal hall lighting when necessary EVERY NIGHT.
REMOVE 1 or 2 LIGHTS from every office and home EVERY DAY/NIGHT.
Have all super markets and other shopping areas dim their lights and turn off a percent of all lights and leave others on dim - EVERY NIGHT.
And then lets not talk about this again. Let's just do what we need to and stop making an issue of something that seems so reasonable EVERY DAY not just for hype.
Doing the above will save more energy than your world wide effort done every year could possibly and let's just stop with the patronizing and do what we can do that is no problem to do, prudent behavior.
UPDATE March 30, 2008: Apparently (in Australia)- no change during Earth Hour.
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