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Ok, time for some good. Environmentally friendly good.
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You don't need to do anything hard, just from 8PM-9PM your local time, shut off all your lights and as many appliances as you see fit.

The whole initiative is to reduce the electricity consumption on earth for one day as much as possible, to raise awareness about Global Warming and Climate change. Sure it may seem like a cumbersome idea, as today our lives revolve around Technology, but take time out to be part of something which has traversed all borders, Physical, Religious and Political.

So just join in, and spread the word to all.

This is where it all began: This was last year's. Don't listen to the times
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I shall

since our family is so into reducing their CO2 emissions and stuff
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I hope this saves at least a bit of energy. The biggest reason why the environment is becoming more and more polluted is because people have the attitude that "im only one person, I can't make a huge difference". WRONG, its everyone's effort that adds up to some good resources saved.
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this has been all lover the news and stuff, i'm probably gonna to do it (even tho i'll be working)
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Probably gonna take just as much power to turn on all these appliances n sh1t as it would save
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My religion teacher told us this, the whole class bursted out laughing lol
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go to http://www.google.ca


it's black.
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They wanna make a difference do it on like a tuesday at 1pm when everyones at work not on a damned saturday night.
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.//curb wrote:go to http://www.google.ca


it's black.


lol! Hahahaha, thats google for you. :P

and Posei i don't think they want to cripple the world economy, just raise awareness :D
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Posei wrote:They wanna make a difference do it on like a tuesday at 1pm when everyones at work not on a damned saturday night.

Missing out on your favorite show are we, lol?

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I'll join in! Anyone wanna play chess at 8 PM my place? :3
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RuYi wrote:I'll join in! Anyone wanna play chess at 8 PM my place? :3


*Raises Hand*

:D!

Me thinks i shall be on the roof of my building at 8pm. To see the lights go out, ill bring candles.

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I don't think many will participate here. Must be easy to find me on Google Earth, one dark spot among too many lights.

Think this is an awesome idea, and so simple to do and make a difference. I really hope people won't just continue their normal routine after that hour, but see how we can make a difference with so little effort spent.

Plus it's easier to cheat in chess. >:3
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.//curb wrote:go to http://www.google.ca


it's black.


lol google is being stupid, by turning their screen black they waste energy because on LCDs it takes more energy to generate a black screen that it does a white screen. Only a small amount of computer users today still use CRTs (which is were a black screen would save the most energy) atm what google is doing is counterproductive to the earth-day movement. Google; still preying on the ignorance of the masses *shakes fist at google*

I'll see if my family can turn off its lights and appliances etc.
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It is lights out for me now.

Weeeee darknesssssssssss
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so why are you still on the computer? lol. my earth hour is in another 11 hours >.>
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Megami wrote:so why are you still on the computer? lol. my earth hour is in another 11 hours >.>


Business Megami, he is still needed :P .
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We are currently doing it right now... sorry i forgot to turn of the PC.. bye bye for 1 hour
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Earth Hour is over for me.

But my lights are still off. Nyaha!

Although i saw a lot of apartments in my towers switch off, i must say im disappointed i didn't see a lot of Jakarta go dark :(
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Still 5:25 here, so still about 3 and a half hours left.
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we just did but for 45 minutes only :P
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yea dude im glad to see some srfers doin this. a bunch of people at my university are doin this too
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ƒuck that shit im keeping my lights on. Need to play my games lolz
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Barotix wrote:
.//curb wrote:go to http://www.google.ca


it's black.


lol google is being stupid, by turning their screen black they waste energy because on LCDs it takes more energy to generate a black screen that it does a white screen. Only a small amount of computer users today still use CRTs (which is were a black screen would save the most energy) atm what google is doing is counterproductive to the earth-day movement. Google; still preying on the ignorance of the masses *shakes fist at google*

I'll see if my family can turn off its lights and appliances etc.


Well, if you're gonna waste a little bit more energy to send a message to all of the users using google, which in turn...atleast someone will decide to conserve more energy, isn't that going to be worth it?
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lol i went on google last night, and like a second before, it was white then the 2nd time it was black, and im like.."WTF I DIDNT DO THIS!" so i refreshed the page and it was still black then i was like "this is gay."
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this is a really kind thing you are doing for the animals and our environment Key-J, keep up the good work!
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hmmm if all of us turn off the lights at that particular time, then turning them back on could possibly cause a HUGE surge in the power grids if for some reason they would turn all the lights back on at once, lol $20 says thats gonna happen in EST tonight.
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bLuE_fLaMe wrote:hmmm if all of us turn off the lights at that particular time, then turning them back on could possibly cause a HUGE surge in the power grids if for some reason they would turn all the lights back on at once, lol $20 says thats gonna happen in EST tonight.

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bLuE_fLaMe wrote:hmmm if all of us turn off the lights at that particular time, then turning them back on could possibly cause a HUGE surge in the power grids if for some reason they would turn all the lights back on at once, lol $20 says thats gonna happen in EST tonight.


i lol'd

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