fat chance.....lets suck up the power...maybe the lights will go out in city hall...

"The object is to have businesses and individuals around the planet take part to demonstrate their willingness to reduce energy consumption."

Willingness? Lot of good that does.

Show us how you have actually reduced energy consumption.

In fact, in some cases it is not a matter of reducing at all because people have grown up in an environment where they are low energy users. For them to reduce a further 2% in a year, let us say, would be difficult while someone who is an energy glutton could easily reduce by 10% and have much more effect on the total use of energy by the community.

Will I turn out my lights? Unless I am not at home, likely not. We use task lights at home rather than lighting up a whole space.

"The object is to have businesses and individuals around the planet take part to demonstrate their willingness to reduce energy consumption." - ya, this goes hand in hand with the "light up the night" event we have around christmas time. What a bunch of hypocrits.

The whole idea is to turn all the lights off for an hour and see what it would be like without all the light pollution that we have. That would mean CNRail and all other industrial sites, street lights and especially the parking lots and car dealers should be turned off. Take about excess users - what about the sport fields that have professional lights that are on during the day games.

People fear the dark and because of that fear there is excess lighting that is so bright that our eyes cannot see in the shadows. It use to be that the street lights where only at intersections and people used flashlights and you could see better than now.

need I post this quote again?
"The object is to have businesses and individuals around the planet take part to demonstrate their WILLINGNESS to REDUCE energy consumption" - it has nothing to do with how afraid of the dark we are. That may be your exercise of the event, but it was founded as a means to helping the environmet (still havent figure out the correlation on that yet) by reducing our energy consumption.

Then the lights will go right back on.

The object is to see how easily people can be cowed and buy into stupid ideas just because they're told to. Use your head and you quickly see how foolish and useless earth hour is. Environmentalists always were a simple-minded lot, they're own worst enemies. Too often they shoot from the hip like this and realize later how dumb they look and after each stunt they lose a little more credibility until people just stop listening.

Watch this video if it warks, it says it all.

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=8015

It's not enough we have to purchase those mercury filled twisty bulbs, but they suggest we turn them off for an hour? Methinks I'll drive my diesel F-350 thru Tims drive thru a few times during that hour. Gotta have some balance in the scheme of things.

Soooo tired of this nonsense.

My incandescent bulbs will be burning brightly. These morons are probably the same ones touting mercury filled CFL's, they can stick "Earth Hour" in their ear.

I think we should all be trying to do what we can to conserve energy when we can, not just at a specific time on a specific day!

It's not that hard to do; it is a mind-set that we need to adopt into our day-to-day routines.

Every action counts, regardless of how small or insignificant it seems. If you get millions of people thinking that way, it does make a difference.

This would be a good time for the criminal element to practise their handy work. Turning out the lights for one hour might also cause Hydro to up their prices. I'm not taking a chance on that, so all my lights will be on. I still have my chrismas lights up too.

LOL Harbinger! thanks for the chuckle.

well if they are serious about using less energy how come they killed the electric vehicle?? Our vehicles are the most serious energy users there are in the world.