L'Alliance pour la Planète (a French alliance of environmental groups) has launched an appeal to give this planet a 5 minutes' break: on 1 February between 7.55 and 8.00 pm Paris time (you can check here what that means for you local timezone).
To quote the Alliance: "It is not about saving 5 minutes of electricity, but about drawing the attention of all citizens, media and politicians to the waste of energy and the urgency of taking action. 5 minutes for the planete: it doesn't take long, it costs nothing and it will show the candidates for the Presidency (France is electing a new President in a couple of months) that climat change is an important subject in the political debate."
I, for one, will try to join the action (if I don't forget and miss the 5-minute time span). I do wonder, however, what will happen if everybody switches their lights back on at 8?
http://grapplica.blogspot.com/2007/02/person-of-year.html
Posted by: grapplica | February 02, 2007 at 04:29 PM
:-)
Posted by: Serge | February 02, 2007 at 05:02 PM
Well... I can say that I forgot it, but thanks to my work, many Estonians didn't and we even had news that they saved the amount of electricity for one town at the size of 20 000 people or so.
And nothing collapsed, although the specialists were afraid :)
Posted by: Triin | February 07, 2007 at 09:31 AM