Turn out the lights -- make a difference
On March 29 at 8 pm, join the Grove Chamber and the City of Miami by switching off the lights during Earth Hour and help make a statement for the good of the earth!Switch off the lights for just one hour-- relax and see your world in a whole new light!
In Sydney, Australia in 2007, 2.2 million people at 2100 businesses turned off their lights for one hour and "Earth Hour" was born.
If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.
Everyone can get involved, residents and businesses alike - this is wonderful opportunity for the Grove to get creative with lighting for just one hour-- if you have a restaurant, go candlelight. If you have a store, sell candles, or run a special promotion for that hour!
If you are a resident, come out for a candlelight stroll and support the businesses that are participating. Join hundreds of thousands of businesses, and millions more individuals worldwide in this positive movement.
Visit www.earthhour.org and get involved. If you are a business, download a corporate communications kit.
There are guidelines for hotels, restaurants...all kinds of businesses and individuals can join in.
posted by Tom Falco at 8:04 AM
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5 Comments:
Does anyone have any ideas or plans on what they are going to do that evening? I'm going to start spreading the word to see what other ppl say.
Yeah, turn out your lights for an hour. Save the world. Real courageous, that. Very demanding. Huge sacrifice.
Now, don't all you old hippies feel better about yourselves?
Aren't you the dude who said that they should keep the lights on in the old Borders book store to add "more life to the Grove"?
This is a micro example of how people who say they care about the environment are conflicted. You want to have a nice, comfortable life in a pleasant community, but believe the things that make this life possible are wrong and should be corrected.
It reminds me of when NBC went "Green" for a week and worked with the lights around the studio off, but had to keep the lights on the studio in order to broadcast. Have seen the number of lights in a studio? If they really cared, they would stop broadcasting for a week and people who watch their programs would turn off the television saving even more C02 (which is basically what we exhale)from going into the atmosphere.
Funny world we live in!
Considering that we get have our electricity in Miami from CO2-free nuclear power (and the fact that turning off the lights has zero impact on the rate of electricity production at your local fossil-fuel-burning power plant), one has to wonder whether the lighting of candles will result in a net increase of the Grove's "carbon footprint" for that one hour.
You can't make this stuff up.
erratum - "have our electricity" should have been "half our electricity"...
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