Earth Hour Tonight: Let’s Do It in the Dark

Turn off the lights, set some candles aglow and draw a bath. Tonight’s the night to join a potential billion people around the globe in darkness for Earth Hour (8:30pm to 9:30pm local time) which is not really about saving energy, but rather to show global solidarity with the green movement and energy conservation, and to let our politicians see that we’re open to new forms of energy.

Around the world, from the Dubai International Airport–where the duty free shops fell dark and diners in the food court nibbled by candle light– to the Eiffel Tower the lights went off. Boston landmarks will go dim, as will the Arkansas capitol building and the governor’s mansion.

Afterwards you can watch reports on the teevee, like this one from Sydney.

29 Responses to "Earth Hour Tonight: Let’s Do It in the Dark"
Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:35 pm 1

OK, I’m in the dark

But now I can’t find him.


Margot | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:38 pm 2

I’m in the dark too.
my dog is eating her kibbles in the dark giving me dark looks.;)


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:40 pm 3
In response to Margot @ 2

lol!

There are a lot of dark houses on my street, I went out to peek.


Loo Hoo. | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:45 pm 4

Shouldn’t we have our computers off? ;~)


Teddy Partridge | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:54 pm 5

Hello from where the sun is still up and the electricity is still on!


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 05:59 pm 6

via TBogg
The Redstate’s Rebels With a Nightlight, srsly

I do solemnly swear that I will honor Earth Hour by turning on every light in my residence at 8:30 p.m. on March 28, 2009, for one hour. God said, “Let there be light.” Who are we to argue?


ratfood | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:08 pm 7

I’ve always been in the dark, or so I’ve been told.


eCAHNomics | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:12 pm 8

Isn’t it daylight in Sydney? Why are lights on during the day, anyhow?


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:15 pm 9

you do it from 8:30 – 9:30 in your time zone


ratfood | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:18 pm 10

Hard to be all wrong, all the time but it CAN be done.

Earth Hour: Limbaugh to turn on Christmas lights to celebrate


greenwarrior | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:20 pm 11

city council races are afoot in austin and one of the contenders is holding a no-electric-lights event at a well-known dem watering hole. alas, i am sick and not able to attend. natch, he’s the environmental candidate.


foothillsmike | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:20 pm 12

Heck it is only 7;20 here


Teddy Partridge | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:22 pm 13
In response to ratfood @ 10

What a disgusting blob of a human being:

“I have the ability from my couch, wherever I happen to be, I can turn on very light in the place, on all five houses. I can turn on the air conditioner and I can regulate the air conditioner. So I lit my place up like a Christmas tree last night.

“At 8:30 on Saturday night, I’m going to do the same thing. I mean, I might even put a Christmas tree up! I might even put Christmas lights on the outside lights, on the outside landscaping. I mean, I’m going to go just the opposite way, because I, El Rushbo — as you know — resist the tug of popular sentiment.”


ratfood | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:28 pm 14
In response to Teddy Partridge @ 13

Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride… Rush crams the seven deadly sins into one vile untidy package.


newtonusr | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:29 pm 15
In response to Teddy Partridge @ 13

Hubris, thy name is Ari Fleischer:
05/07/01

QUESTION: Does the President believe that, given the amount of energy Americans consume per capita, how much it exceeds any other citizen in any other country in the world, does the President believe we need to correct our lifestyles to address the energy problem?

FLEISCHER: That’s a big no. The President believes that it’s an American way of life.


marymccurnin | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:32 pm 16
In response to ratfood @ 14

Soon Rush will be the same size as the planet and, then, he will splode.
“Desert sir? It is wafer thin.”
Blam!!!!!


darkblack | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:34 pm 17

Do it unplugged.

;>)


newtonusr | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:34 pm 18
In response to marymccurnin @ 16

“Get me a bucket… My show is about to start…”


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:34 pm 19
In response to ratfood @ 14

I wonder what his mother was like.


ratfood | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:35 pm 20
In response to marymccurnin @ 16

I hadn’t considered this before but perhaps climate change actually results from Rush’s ever increasing mass tipping the Earth off it’s normal axis.


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:35 pm 21
In response to darkblack @ 17

lol!


TheLurkingMod | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:36 pm 22

marymccurnin | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:37 pm 23
In response to Elliott @ 19

She wasn’t a small quiet woman.


ratfood | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:37 pm 24
In response to Elliott @ 19

Sore, at least after birthing that 20-lb turkey.


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:37 pm 25

Kirk’s up
Poison Takes a Holiday: Rio Grande Aerial Weed Killer Spraying “Indefinitely Delayed”


Elliott | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:38 pm 26
In response to Elliott @ 25

I shoulda known Lurk would beat me to it.


TheLurkingMod | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:40 pm 27
In response to Elliott @ 26

Can we get a round of neener-neener’s going?


Teddy Partridge | Saturday March 28, 2009 06:42 pm 28
In response to newtonusr @ 15

Also:

“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy”

Dick Cheney, 5/1/01

Whenever I read their shit from before 9/11, I get the feeling they were just phoning it in, waiting around for their Pearl Harbor moment.


Lisa Derrick | Saturday March 28, 2009 08:41 pm 29

In the dark! and it’s lovely!


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