I just received this email from Don, the founder of the Tortoise First forum
The World Wildlife Fund is asking individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – to make a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate commitment to finding solutions. Go to http://www.earthhourus.org/main.php to learn more.
While I seriously doubt that this action is likely to have any tangible effect on fuel consumption, it will, hopefully have a symbolic effect. We do need to use the resources of our planet with much greater care and concern for the implications. I'm all for it.
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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If everyone who possibly can, takes part world wide, it may well have a tangible effect.
Recently, on the night of February 18th, BBC Radio Nottingham organised a power switch off in the Nottinghamshire area between 9pm to 6am. All they asked was for folks (including businesses, local authority and government departments) to actually switch off lights and things they were not using (rather than leaving thigs in stand by mode and the electricity suppliers metered the results. These results can be found at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2009/03/17/energy_experiemnt_results_feature.shtml
It seems we saved 14,150 kilowatt hours of electricity. With results like that from one small county, if it was done all over the world, even for just one hour, think what the saving might be.
Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at http://www.commit21.com/
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