Earth Hour

[Armstrongs]

It's Earth Hour tonight......8.30pm

http://www.earthhour.org/

Yv x

[billsstamps]

It is not good to use up the earth's resources.

So I will switch off my comput

[damian_steele]

So millions of people turn off their lights for an hour before over-loading the local power grid when at the same time they all turn them back on and go to boil a kettle.

This sort of thing does nothing to help the planet. It just makes a bunch of hypocrites feel happy because they pretended to do something "meaningful" for a single hour.

I say stop the bullsh*t. Stop this one hour pretense. If people want to do something to save the planet they should do something meaningful all day, every day.

[kazeran]

So millions of people turn off their lights for an hour before over-loading the local power grid when at the same time they all turn them back on and go to boil a kettle.

This sort of thing does nothing to help the planet. It just makes a bunch of hypocrites feel happy because they pretended to do something "meaningful" for a single hour.

I say stop the bullsh*t. Stop this one hour pretense. If people want to do something to save the planet they should do something meaningful all day, every day.

I totally agree. I do my bit, I don't buy a newspaper.
Saves me stress and saves the planet at the same time.

[Armstrongs]

So millions of people turn off their lights for an hour before over-loading the local power grid when at the same time they all turn them back on and go to boil a kettle.

This sort of thing does nothing to help the planet. It just makes a bunch of hypocrites feel happy because they pretended to do something "meaningful" for a single hour.

I say stop the bullsh*t. Stop this one hour pretense. If people want to do something to save the planet they should do something meaningful all day, every day.

Well, I for one take it as a valuable opportunity to educate my Grandchildren about wasting resources etc. etc.
It will be their planet long after we have all said goodbye......and left our mess behind!
Also, if nothing else, it's great fun to read books & play board games by torchlight. (with a little lesson about how that's all some children ever have)

Yvonne x

[suesjools]

Didn't know that, thanks Vonz. I recycle containers whenever I can, plastic coffee canisters make great storage for small items.

Best wishes for many sales to all,

[damian_steele]

Well, I for one take it as a valuable opportunity to educate my Grandchildren about wasting resources etc. etc.

Is there some reason why you can't do this on any other day of the year? Why does it need a particular day to teach kids something?

[BLOXBOOKS]

Ooops, crap, I missed it, but I'm not upset.....I do compost and with the help of a local guy who gives me his pigeon guano I got one bin that is steaming (its well over 50c, maybe the straw mixed in helps get going) so after bottles, glass, tins, papers are sent for recycling it takes me about 6 weeks to get one bin bag of rubbish, this year I should be 90% self sufficient in home grown veg (still got some things frozen from last year) collected about 130 jars to make chutneys and jams, and some pickling...the pea and broad bean seedlings are starting in old toilet roll centre tubes, my son managed to get a load of big square pots (used but perfect condition) I made 3 big raised beds from reclaimed wood (untreted so it wont last more than a few years but no chemicals to leech in to the straberries, that are all from last years runners) best is we found a place with 3 medlar trees and we can have some of the fuit towards the end of the year........I feel good about what I do, but for sure the UK is miles behind on simple things....

[damian_steele]

I do compost and .... etc

So much better than turning off the lights for an hour. Meaningful difference comes from changing our way of life, not from changing the light level for an hour.

Well done, Blox.