My wife and I turned our lights off at 8:30 and didn’t turn them back on all night. We made dinner and ate by candle-light, which was nice and mellow. Then we talked about our life and the possibilities for the future while we polished off the delicious bottle of wine we started at dinner. It was so nice I think we might start doing it more often.

I would say that 80% I adopted this goal was for the romantic atmosphere and 20% for environmental “consciousness”, so I think my plan worked out well!