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Give Earth a 5min break.
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:50 pmby PapaW
Emmer has been alearted to an event...We're doing it!
Lights out everyone 1st of feb
On the 1st February, 2007 throughout the world:
CORRECT START TIMES - FRANCE ARE AN HOUR AHEAD - THEY WILL HIT THEIR LIGHTS AT
7.55PM.
SO WE IN THE UK WHO ARE AN HOUR BEHIND WILL HIT OUR LIGHTS AT 6.55PM TO JOIN IN
WITH FRANCE.
USA AND CANADA - HIT YOUR LIGHTS 6.55PM YOUR LOCAL TIME.
The "Alliance pour la Planète" (a national grouping of environmental
associations) appeals to all citizens to give the planet 5 minutes
respite :
Everybody to extinguish all their lights and illuminations and turn
off equipment on stand-by on the 1st February 2007 from 18h55 until 19h00.
(GMT)
The purpose is not just to save electricity for 5 minutes that day, but to
draw the attention of citizens, the media and the authorities to the waste
of energy and the need to initiate action! 5 minutes respite for the planet:
that's not long, it costs nothing and will show our politicians that climate
change is something which should figure prominently in political debates.
Why the 1st February? Because that is the day on which the latest
report of the United Nations Panel of Experts is to be released in Paris.
Although this event is scheduled to take place in France, we should not miss
this opportunity of drawing attention to the global climatic situation.
If we all participate our actions will have great public and political
resonance, at an important moment in our political life.!
Please make this appeal as widely known as possible in your own circles and
networks ! please also publish it on your websites and in your newsletters.
So dont just stop after this little event but carry on everyday being aware of
the little things that you can do to save our world.
CORRECT START TIMES - FRANCE ARE AN HOUR AHEAD - THEY WILL HIT THEIR LIGHTS AT
7.55PM.
SO WE IN THE UK WHO ARE AN HOUR BEHIND WILL HIT OUR LIGHTS AT 6.55PM TO JOIN IN
WITH FRANCE.
USA AND CANADA - HIT YOUR LIGHTS 6.55PM YOUR LOCAL TIME.
Posted:
Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:07 pmby derbyshire surfer
Nice one, will do that...nothing wrong with candles anyways!
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:27 pmby ^*^BATMAN^*^
Ya, this has been going through Facebook like wildfire...
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:45 pmby IdRatherBeSurfing
do you actually think anyones going to bother? i mean, I cant see more than about 30% of peeps doing it at the most
Posted:
Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:58 pmby CheeZee
..good shout Papa, im up for it!
besides.. it creates the perfect excuse for some random groping in the dark and you can never have enough random groping in the dark i say
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:05 pmby essex sucks
yep me too
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:16 pmby CheeZee
lol... " see Jojo .. thats where they may have gone wrong ...if the powers that be had said .. " lets turn out the lights accross the globe in a unified mass random grope .. then it would deffo be 100% ..in fact i'd do more than my share and bring it up to around 103%
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:17 pmby IdRatherBeSurfing
CheeZee wrote:lol... " see Jojo .. thats where they may have gone wrong ...if the powers that be had said .. " lets turn out the lights accross the globe in a unified mass random grope .. then it would deffo be 100% ..in fact i'd do more than my share and bring it up to around 103%
mass random grope it is then
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:18 pmby CheeZee
..and save the world at the same time .. now thats forward thinking people lmao
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:35 pmby libby
Yep my house is doing it, as is every other ecology/ environmental science student at UEA
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Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:48 pmby SoCal WaterSpout
I'm in. Thanks for the heads up!!!
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:14 amby tomcat360
But wait.....how are we going to check SW?!?! 5 minutes without SW?!?!
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:06 amby gdude335
im in.
its 10:55 am for the people in california.
Il be in school so il just unplug some stuff.
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:41 amby PapaW
Its bigger than it seems. The Effle Tower and other French landmarks are being turned off also..
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:46 amby lucy
Ooh, I like it! The statement, not the groping, that is..! I hope i see lots other lights going off too..
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:37 amby sal
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:21 amby unodoshol
yep ill be joinging in..but just a thought, wouldn't the surge in electricity of everyone turning everything back on after 5mins waste more electricity than has been saved in the 5 mins? I've always thought that turning things on and off uses more power than keeping them on..hence why some street lights are constantly on!
I know thats not the point as this event is symbolic more than anythjing...but just curious.. can any electricians answer my ponderings?
Posted:
Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:49 amby thaya
I'll be at the gym, probably on the treadmill.....
but I wont feel so guilty cuz I always switch off lights when I don't need them, unplug stuff and I never leave things on standby anyway...
Posted:
Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:03 amby sal
I've just realised that it's today! Which is fine, cos I'd be doing it anyway as I'll be out!!!
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Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:52 pmby CheeZee
.but just a thought, wouldn't the surge in electricity of everyone turning everything back on after 5mins waste more electricity than has been saved in the 5 mins?
..spot on , but i didnt want to be the one that brought attention to that practical fact .. lets just go with the symbolic show of unity ..and hope the fleshing power grid can handle the surge lol
