turn off the lights for one hour at 8pm on 28 March 2009 for Earth Hour !

I switched off all my lights before 20:30, lit some candles around my studio and even pulled out all the plugs from electric devices that have a stand-by mode. So my flat was completely energy non-consuming, with the exception of my fridge. (Couldn’t really turn it off.) My Earth Hour was spent taking photos of the candles and reading. I enjoyed it a lot, it was lovely to sit in the candle light. :) Should take the time and relax like that more often.
I didn’t switch on any lights for the rest of the evening, I didn’t need them.

The goal has already been created and you can easily join the 2010 goal, then “remove it” to put it in the given up folder to be brought out again later.

I left my house in darkness, and went to a birthday party at a friend’s house. She agreed to turn the lights out, and we continued for an hour by beautiful candlelight.

One of my less “enlightened” relatives made a comment that I could have responded to, but I chose not to. She was not at the party – I had posted Earth Hour on my facebook page. I was not going to change her mind and would have been reacting out of negativity, which does me and the universe no good.

At first I was confused by the timing and checking the Earth Hour site, I saw that it was scheduled for 8:30 to 9:30 local time, so that’s what we did. It was fun to turn out the lights and enjoy the quiet and to do things not requiring power and to also not be online for an hour. My kids were keener than I was and they made sure to go around the house and shut things down as well. It’s good to be conscious of energy consumption and hopefully the event will encourage people to think about the energy that they use every day and ways to be more efficient with resources.
Being in a small, rural town, it’s harder to notice the difference since there is some light pollution, but not as much as there would be in a larger city, but it did appear that some people in the neighbourhood dimmed thier lights for the event.

8pm – 9pm the lights were off. Candles on, and I switched the PC off. It was good to do, and even if it doesn’t make that much difference to the world (as some people mention) it doesn’t hinder the world any – plus, I love candles, so that’s no problem! It was funny when mum said that people if they walked past our house might think we’d had a power cut!

this was fun!felt a bit of a doofus sitting there in the dark having a debate about a niehbour who was more than making up for our unlightedness,i wanted to push something “unexpected”through his letterbox but wiser heads prevailed,we also wondered what other people might be doing and chatted about the news of the day,surreal but worthwhile i think!

this was fun!felt a bit of a doofus sitting there in the dark having a debate about a niehbour who was more than making up for our unlightedness,i wanted to push something “unexpected”through his letterbox but wiser heads prevailed,we also wondered what other people might be doing and chatted about the news of the day,surreal but worthwhile i think!

Fortunately I knew where all my candles were and we lit quite a few of them. It was still pretty dark, but very comfy and we had a great evening, just talking and looking at the plate full of candles. Very relaxing…
We’ll probably have another Earth Hour some time next week. ;-)

We sat in the garage with the door open facing the street, drinks in hand and a single candle glowing, just talking. We should probably do this a lot more often.

and me (all alone at home) singing and playing my guitar. Ceratinly unplugged. This is what it was.