Earth Hour Every Hour
Ξ March 29th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Thoughts are things |
I followed the Earth Hour link on Google as we put our clocks forward here in the UK tonight. It said that individuals account for 45% of over 500 million tones of CO2 per year.
It’s not just homes, I wondered what percentage of this 45% are the albeit pretty lights left on in office buildings in every town and city across-the-globe? All the machines in homes and offices using juice in standby mode?
How can more of us remember to turn each light off?
Saving electricity isn’t really meaningful for many, but what about “I turn this light off for my daughter Andrea and her children”, or “I shut down this computer for my friend Carol and this one for Ena”?
It’s so easy to have different and contradictory measures. What difference does this one light make, but we easily remember to collect a few vouchers at a time for school computers or remember to claim the points as we pay for our petrol or gas.
If a loved one is sick we do what we can to make them better, we turn down the light, bring a cool drink if they have a temperature, or a warm blanket if they have a chill.
This truly amazing and exquisitely beautiful planet needs us to lower the temperature for her and remember to switch the lights and power off, to turn the heat down.
