Earth Hour… An Earthy holiday, with it’s own organic, flaming cocktail

Posted by Morgan on March 29th, 2008 18 Comments

Earth Hour… An Earthy holiday, with it’s own organic, flaming cocktail.

You’ve heard of Earth Day, now there’s “Earth Hour“… This just in from “Plenty” magazine:

Q: I’ve been hearing about a lights-out thing happening tomorrow, called Earth Hour. It seems like a vague concept—what is it, exactly, and will it really accomplish anything? - Mandy, DE

A: Earth Hour is a global, voluntary, lights-out event taking place March 29 from 8-9pm. The idea is to take some time to think about how we use energy, and, of course, to actually save energy. Earth Hour kicked off last year in Sydney, Australia, and the 2.2 million people who turned their lights off saved as much energy as if 48,000 cars had been taken off the roads for an hour. Now raise that number to the Nth degree, because this year, Earth Hour is a global event. Roughly 30 million people in cities large and small, from Dublin to Copenhagen to Tel Aviv to Toronto have said they’ll flick the switch for mama Earth. Earth Hour has even got its own burning cocktail. Check the official site for more details.

Okay, you say—if it’s happening in cities all over the world this year, what about differing time zones? Don’t worry about them. Just turn the lights off from 8-9pm, your local time. And as for how to spend an entire hour of darkness, why not invite friends over for a candle-lit party, read by candlelight, camp out in your backyard, or just relax and have some time entirely to yourself?

For a bit of Earth Hour history, an interview with supporter Cate Blanchette, and adorable words of wisdom from children, check out the Earth Hour video.

Oh, BTW, I am Morgan… Morgan, I am. Just another lurker who has been enjoying cVillain from the sidelines, and thought it was time to chime in. Howdy.

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18 Responses to “Earth Hour… An Earthy holiday, with it’s own organic, flaming cocktail”

  1. 29 Mar 2008 at 8:54 am1Turn out the lights tonight | Real Central VA said:

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  2. 29 Mar 2008 at 10:40 am2parlie said:

    hi morgan. i’m going to liveblog earth hour.

  3. 29 Mar 2008 at 10:45 am3Morgan said:

    OK, it hasn’t been well publicized in the US yet, but hey, even National Pillow Day had to start somewhere. Let’s get the word out, and maybe by next year we can even have a local bar take part and we can all party by candlelight and flaming cocktails.

  4. 29 Mar 2008 at 11:00 am4Morgan said:

    Hey there parlie. I’ll check it out.
    It’s a shame that the US media didn’t pick up on it sooner (or at all) this year.
    It seems like something that has some potential to catch on. Indeed, even Google is joining in:

    http://www.google.com/intl/en/earthhour/

    :::sorry, still need to learn the code for linking via comments:::

  5. 29 Mar 2008 at 11:20 am5Smiley said:

    Hey Morgan, thanks for stopping by. There’s Yoo Hoo in the fridge and Chex Mix on the coffee table, next to the flash light. Screw that fancy cocktail, we’re going to do flaming shots of 151 from 8-9.

  6. 29 Mar 2008 at 12:09 pm6Morgan said:

    Hmmm Yoo Hoo and 151… Kinda like a White Russian. Didn’t Yogi Bera like Yoo Hoo?. (spell check lit up all over trhat sentence!). Maybe a White Yogi.
    I’ll bring the cards and chips

  7. 29 Mar 2008 at 1:37 pm7mc said:

    Hi morgan! This is a cool thing, thanks for publicizing it. I got freaked out by lights out Google last night, though. Thought I’d accidentally gone to blackle.com.

  8. 29 Mar 2008 at 1:40 pm8scoriole said:

    mmm. i’ll be in the dark. thanks for shedding the light.

    and it’s unfortunate flaming any alcohol is against ABC at establishments. we’ll have to work on that.

    of course, at home it is all totally ok. i’m guessing. it’s not like ABC is gonna take my liquor license away for a month. right?

    /guess i’ll let you know;)

  9. 29 Mar 2008 at 3:05 pm9cVillain » Blog Archive » And You Ran How Long? And Why? said:

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  10. 29 Mar 2008 at 5:32 pm10Morgan said:

    (If all goes well… ) Here’s the Earth Hour promo video, narrated by Jeremy Piven…

  11. 29 Mar 2008 at 5:37 pm11Morgan said:

    Shucks… Didn’t work… If anyone can es’plain how to embed a YouTube link in comments, I’m all ears.
    In the mean time…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_c5K7Jdw9E&eurl=http://www5.earthhourus.org/

    /still bummin’ this didn’t get around sooner.

  12. 29 Mar 2008 at 6:18 pm12parlie said:

    thor has to embed them from his secret lair behind the smokescreen.

  13. 29 Mar 2008 at 6:42 pm13Stanley said:

    WITH LASERS!

  14. 29 Mar 2008 at 9:25 pm14Morgan said:

    :::Drawing slowly::: Well baby, it was good for me… was it good for you?

    Does it still count if we had all the lights off, but watched “Across The Universe” during that hour?

  15. 29 Mar 2008 at 9:39 pm15Stanley said:

    Hey, Morgan, if we merge our psueds, I bet we can sell out to a prominent investment bank. Just sayin’…

  16. 29 Mar 2008 at 9:46 pm16Morgan said:

    Damn Stanley… now you’re making me wish I didn’t sell my $2 billion worth of stock last week for $60 million

  17. 29 Mar 2008 at 11:41 pm17Tuffy McFucklebee said:

    Global Stewardship and Jeremy Piven have always been synonymous in my book. IT’S great that people are recognizing that IT’S the job of human civilization to do ITS part on this crazy blue marble.

  18. 29 Mar 2008 at 11:53 pm18parlie said:

    i forgot to liveblog. my power went out.

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