It's Earth Hour, now. In the midst of it, actually. What is it? Well, we, the human race of this planet, in our desperate attempt to reduce our electricity consumption, has decided to switch off our lights for an hour,, on this date. My country's one hour is to last from 2030 until 2130. In other words, about 21 minutes ago. Right now, all the lights in my apartment are off, and I guess, they will be off unless we, my housemate and I, needs to answer calls of nature. Of course, we will not do it in darkness. A total no-no!
By switching off, am I participating? I am not sure. I had thought that I had not wanted to follow this, since I think all this is just a gimmick. An hour's off the lights will not allow me to contribute much towards reducing my total consumption of the electricity. While my lights are off here, I'm blogging in my room and listening to music. My housemate and her friend are chatting away in her room. In other words, my laptop and the modem are still turned on, both our laptops and fans are on, and my speakers are plugged and are playing. My cynical side says that our electricity bill will not see any major reduction with this exercise. Sigh.
Anyway, just a support from a lazy girl with nothing else better to do on a Saturday night. Since there's not harm and not much effort required except flicking the light switches off, we both decided to join in the masses, for the fun of it. Also, I guess, since we both will have our laptops on. Else, I doubt that we will. It will be too dark for our comfort. At least for me.
Thank you for all the effort, my WWF wrist band is glowing now, finally! See you all next year, perhaps with a more extended and widespread effort.
Happy Earth Hour, all!
By switching off, am I participating? I am not sure. I had thought that I had not wanted to follow this, since I think all this is just a gimmick. An hour's off the lights will not allow me to contribute much towards reducing my total consumption of the electricity. While my lights are off here, I'm blogging in my room and listening to music. My housemate and her friend are chatting away in her room. In other words, my laptop and the modem are still turned on, both our laptops and fans are on, and my speakers are plugged and are playing. My cynical side says that our electricity bill will not see any major reduction with this exercise. Sigh.
Anyway, just a support from a lazy girl with nothing else better to do on a Saturday night. Since there's not harm and not much effort required except flicking the light switches off, we both decided to join in the masses, for the fun of it. Also, I guess, since we both will have our laptops on. Else, I doubt that we will. It will be too dark for our comfort. At least for me.
Thank you for all the effort, my WWF wrist band is glowing now, finally! See you all next year, perhaps with a more extended and widespread effort.
Happy Earth Hour, all!
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