Earth Hour (Page 2 of 2)

Hey Old Doll, my hubby and I are like you.  We reduce, reuse and recycle everything, compost, use a clothesline to dry our clothes, sit with candles on or no lights lots, use our natural gas fireplace to heat our home and anything else we can think of.  I feel good about that. 

As for the rest of you negative nellies!  Shame on you.    Yes maybe 1 hour a year isn't going to make that much difference and maybe the power up after the hour was more significant than what was saved.  Hopefully people kept going after the 1 hour, I know we did.  And yes maybe in future years it will be advertised for more than just 1 hour but at least it's a start and it gets people thinking, ya know?  Every little bit helps as far as I'm concerned. 

The one thing that really disturbs me is garbage day on our street.  All of the homes are bigger than ours (another way we help, heating a smaller home) and have at least 2-4 kids per family.  All of the parents are younger than us so I always thought they would be the ones to really get in on the recycling bandwagon.  NOPE!  You should see the stuff they throw out each week.  We hate to throw out anything.  We barely have 1 bag a week to toss out.  These young parents don't recycle anything.  What are they teaching their kids?  Fortunately our city is starting a bluebox recycling program this spring. 

OK, rant over. 

Heather

I'm fine Badeye.  How 'bout you?  Ready for spring but that's another topic.......I was home in 1999 and 2000 and Halifax already had that program in place.  I thought it was wonderful!  They talked about limiting how many bags you could throw out a week here, getting charged if you were over but it never got off the drawing board.  I thought that would have been a good thing too.  Our recycling program will be everything except food materials for composting.  I guess they're hoping people will do that themselves at home. 

Put the kettle on.  I'll be right over for my cuppa. 

Raven

OK, if I head out to the airport now, I should be there by...... tomorrow afternoon.    Oh wait, you're in Cape Breton right?  Better get supper on for me, since I'll have to drive from Halifax to the Cape.  All worth it to sit around a maritime kitchen again and play some tunes with folks from home though.  :

Earth Hour now that title does make
Good old Mother Earth spinning away in space as she has for billions of years and as she will for billions of years come whatever we do to her. Here we are mankind inhabiting her for a relatively short while maybe stratching her surface a little in our puny efforts to say alive....
Is she worried I think not she will survive whatever. We are the one's that won't..
Earth Hour should be renamed Mankind Hour as that is who we trying to save here..
Ark

Well said indeed arkady.  Have to agree with you too Ken.  Well gee, now I'm depressed.  Thanks guy.  All I was trying to do was bring a little awareness and creativity to a boring Saturday night.  Oh well, onward and upward, right? 

Thanks Ken.  Knew I could count on you. 

Cheers
Heather

Been out for a few days but I'm glad to see there were people that celebrated Earth Hour. My job is to encourage (or force) people to protect the environment so it's always good to see the ideas like Earth Hour catching on because it makes it seem like my efforts, and other people efforts, are doing some good. We always do something with area students for Earth Day and show an environmental film like "an inconvenient truth" (which is pretty out dated now) at our local theater to promote environmental awareness. I just hope that we all live Earth Day or Earth Hour every day.

Thanks RavenLady for starting the thread and thanks Zurf for teaching your kids about environmental awareness.

That settles it, I'm a Hippie who loves the earth and guitar.  lol

Badeye