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pics from Earth Hour 09

blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 28th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked. Let me state that again, since I know not everyone reads the whole intro here -

*starting with image #2 below, click on the image to see an animated fade between "on" and "off". This effect requires javascript to be enabled. (17 photos total)*


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... _2009.html
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  • arqarq Posts: 8,049
    edited March 2009
    blondieblue227 wrote:
    Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 28th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked. Let me state that again, since I know not everyone reads the whole intro here -

    *starting with image #2 below, click on the image to see an animated fade between "on" and "off". This effect requires javascript to be enabled. (17 photos total)*


    http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... _2009.html

    How beatiful pictures!!! thanks for sharing!
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  • Jeremys SpokenJeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    What a bunch of bull shit. Fuck that. Lets shut our lights for an hour, and prove nothing.

    Its just a little ploy for I dont even know what. It's going to take a LOT more than that to get people to be aware about this stuff.
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  • RV194804RV194804 Posts: 4
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    What a bunch of bull shit. Fuck that. Lets shut our lights for an hour, and prove nothing.

    Its just a little ploy for I dont even know what. It's going to take a LOT more than that to get people to be aware about this stuff.


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  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    What a bunch of bull shit. Fuck that. Lets shut our lights for an hour, and prove nothing.

    Its just a little ploy for I dont even know what. It's going to take a LOT more than that to get people to be aware about this stuff.
    totally.
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    This one's my favorite . . . .


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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    arq wrote:

    How beatiful pictures!!! thanks for sharing!

    you're welcome. :)
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Nice pics. I'm a bit skeptical about one hour of the whole year is going to make a difference. But I guess basically it's just to raise awareness and get people to change their habits.
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    What a bunch of bull shit. Fuck that. Lets shut our lights for an hour, and prove nothing.

    Its just a little ploy for I dont even know what. It's going to take a LOT more than that to get people to be aware about this stuff.

    That's sort of what have thought about this thing. It is just a massive amount of lip service. I mean in reality demand for electricity at 830 on a Saturday night in early spring is probably fairly low to begin with. Why not start shutting lights off, or better yet computers and AC equipment for an hour on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of summer? That would be an actual sacrifice.

    And on a more general note I think the whole idea of doing something to "raise awareness" is generally a load of crap anyways. I mean who hasn't heard about climate change. And if someone has and isn't sure if they buy it, is shutting off the lights for an hour going to convince them?
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    And on a more general note I think the whole idea of doing something to "raise awareness" is generally a load of crap anyways. I mean who hasn't heard about climate change. And if someone has and isn't sure if they buy it, is shutting off the lights for an hour going to convince them?

    That's a good point..it's not like people don't know what going on in the world. I find people just don't give a shit and there is nothing you can do about that.
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  • blondieblue227blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    I’ve seen threads on here dismissing global warming. Everybody doesn’t know/believe it’s happening.

    Yeah yeah, what’s one hour going to do?
    …….give us pretty pics to look at. If nothing else I don’t think you can deny that.
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