Earth Hour Tomorrow

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Jennifer wrote:

Too true– but you have to admit, awareness is the first step to get voter-driven legislation to pass.

Though it may not actually do much in the long run for energy conservation during the times they were turned off, I am willing to bet that a few people noticed this sort of thing!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/earth_hour_2009.html

I won’t deny that. However, it is getting people to care after they are made aware that is the hard step. To my mind, plenty of people are aware, but very little are driven to care.

I do care immensely, and I understand how far a little can go… but the sad part is we need a *lot* of these little bits to really make a difference.

My own little ways are thus. By hunting, I remove my money from ranchers providing my meat and producing greenhouse gases (As well as I get food from a source that I can trust – can’t get more organic than that). By not running my dishwasher or washing machine unless they are absolutely full conserves water, as does my painstakingly set up drip irrigation system. I don’t use lights except at night and I am sure to turn them off when I leave a room. Almost every last scrap of recyclable material is sorted and recycled, and food scraps are fed to the chickens or put to compost. Almost every last appliance I own is high-efficiency (Energy Star) – those that aren’t do not remain plugged in. Shortly, I will be investing in a solar array to run my water heaters, light my stables, and sell electricity back to PG&E. By themselves, each thing I just listed is a little step. All together, it adds up to be a lot.

I just wish more people would move from awareness to doing. It would make a huge difference overnight if everyone made just one active change.

[Jennifer]

That’s too true! And you know, they are just making a big jump in solar technology where it will be something like 85% efficient, and the pricing will start to go down in the next few years. We are gonna look into that investment soon!

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