Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx
At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour.
Anyone here willing to participate?
Sure, I will turn off my PC, any other devices and the lights in the room, I will try to convince my family that we have to turn off everything off in the house :P
8:30 is Evening News time...Doubt any lebanese would turn off his TV :p
I'm usually ecologist but this time I'll not participate. My reason is simple: we already do it here in Lebanon, everyday, even if we don't want to... Anyway, I think that it's something that has to be done mostly in developed countries. I wonder how much energy saving is a 1 hour disconnection in the USA compared to all Africa's consumption...1 year of energy maybe?
I am at work in a restaurant, I dont think the owner will bare any "lose" from this hour on Saturday.
Jad wroteI'm usually ecologist but this time I'll not participate. My reason is simple: we already do it here in Lebanon, everyday, even if we don't want to...
haha yes and 4 to 8 hours a day to be exact.
Useless stuff at any country. It doesn't have any real effect, because electicity generation has stable output, and dropping load suddently will make harm on it and worsen efficiency of power generation.
Worse than that - to compensate load differences in modern countries, nuclear power plants need "old" coal plants to make compensation of load differences and stabilize frequency, so it will make things even worse.

WWF well known organisation, who don't do much effect, and turned out to be more political power to make pressure on opponents, by bribing them. Shortly - it is just another way of doing business. Example (source: wiki)
In June 2009, Touch Seang Tana, chairman of Cambodia's Commission for Conservation and Development of the Mekong River Dolphins Eco-tourism Zone, charged that the WWF had misrepresented the danger of extinction of the Mekong Dolphin in order to boost fundraising.
Flakk wrote
Jad wroteI'm usually ecologist but this time I'll not participate. My reason is simple: we already do it here in Lebanon, everyday, even if we don't want to...
haha yes and 4 to 8 hours a day to be exact.
Not really. Are you forgetting the backup generators?
ac1d wrote
Flakk wrote
Jad wroteI'm usually ecologist but this time I'll not participate. My reason is simple: we already do it here in Lebanon, everyday, even if we don't want to...
haha yes and 4 to 8 hours a day to be exact.
Not really. Are you forgetting the backup generators?
There will be no difference, unless you own a generator, so you can turn it off willingly. But for those who have "ichtirak", they will make no difference as long as the generator is on.
Jad wrote
ac1d wrote
Flakk wrote haha yes and 4 to 8 hours a day to be exact.
Not really. Are you forgetting the backup generators?
There will be no difference, unless you own a generator, so you can turn it off willingly. But for those who have "ichtirak", they will make no difference as long as the generator is on.
But you can still say that we save energy daily bcz in the villages and mountains..there's no generators...amIright ?
useless and silly idea actually, making people think that by turning off lights for one hour each year they will save Earth and make a difference.
Even if the event is to raise awareness, it is still useless cause it is late to try to convince people that global warming is a threat a and is really happening. Every one can start feeling it, cause since when we have those brutal summers in Lebanon ?
The only solution for this problem is to find another energy source , and all it require is a decision; a brave one.
GN90 wroteuseless and silly idea actually, making people think that by turning off lights for one hour each year they will save Earth and make a difference.
Even if the event is to raise awareness, it is still useless cause it is late to try to convince people that global warming is a threat a and is really happening. Every one can start feeling it, cause since when we have those brutal summers in Lebanon ?
The only solution for this problem is to find another energy source , and all it require is a decision; a brave one.
No not really, everyone was aware of global warming but didn't act on it till now. There are some groups trying to deal a little with this threat. And everything just needs time; even in Israel they built more electric trains for transportation to decrease the usage in gas which decreases global warming, and in America there building a subway train that is very fast and can transport you easily from North America to South America in a mere 3 to 5 hours that takes only a quarter of gas that the car uses in 3 days= less global warming. Thats all i know but there is alot of groups trying to come up with an idea to decrease global warming. Everything needs time.

Like lebanon internet that took decades to fix and there acting on it now.
Would be cool to turn off the light.
The PC.. no would be like turning off life support...