Earth Hour -- who is participating?

[sweeps]

Earth Hour

Millions of people will turn off their lights for an hour to make a statement about energy usage and climate change. It happens March 29 at 8pm local time.

[Lori63]

We'll be out of town for the day-so all the power strips, lights, etc. will be off anyway.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

9pm now. I missed it.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Oh, wait this is 47 hours from now!

[PrincessPerky]

heh, you made me worry I had the date all wrong!

I actually stopped to check my calendar before finishing the thread!

as to turning things off...not to sure I can convince my husband not to be on the computer (8pm is when the kids go to bed, so perfect for grown up time wasters)

[cptacek]

Couldn't this cause problems with power surges and such when people turn the lights back on?

Oh, and the NCAA tournament is on then. I bet lots of people plan on doing it, but forget or can't convince their SO to turn the TV off.

[PauletteGoddard]

Millions of people will turn off their lights for an hour to make a statement about energy usage and climate change. It happens March 29 at 8pm local time.

If I remember to, I'll try to participate. If I get bored I'll go outside and enjoy the light pollution, or loiter at the local High Fructose Corn Syrup Emporium.

[Exile]

DW and I intend to participate at 8pm local time--about 4 hours from now.

[Gruntina]

I didn't participate! I live in the forrest away from the city so felt weird to do it all alone in the middle of nowhere.

[PauletteGoddard]

My household participated in Earth hour. I confess I peeked outside to see if anyone else on our street was doing it (my city's mayor is noisy/determined about climate action). My family was happy to give up electricity for the hour, although the Boyservant Hecubus became overexcited and bouncy by the change, so at 9:00:10 PM the Lord and Master of Darkness put the lights back on.

[PrincessPerky]

We turned the lights off, but left the computers on..actually I had forgotten about it till my husband went to google at about 10 after 8...google had a black background to commemorate the event.