How did you spend Earth Hour 2008?
Us?
- 100% candlelight
- A game of cribbage
- Power nap
Chris and I both felt the sleepy effects of turning off the man-made light nearly immediately. We both wanted to go to bed.
Perhaps the answer to our not sleeping well lies in this fact. If we always turned off the lights at 8pm, maybe that would entice us to bed more quickly.
Hmm. Food for thought.
(Window near our front door advertising our Earth Hour participation)
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Hi Katie - I'm glad noone was here to take a picture of me during Earth Hour :) Yours are lovely though. I also had a power nap -rather appropriate hey?
I'm a lover of cribbage too - I've played since the age of 10 when my grandad taught me. I used to play with him and my dad after tea every Tuesday - a great excuse not to buckle down to homework! Happy times...
I didn't even think to take a photo of our Earth Hour participation, but we turned the lights and TV off and *talked* for an hour by candlelight, over a cup of coffee. I like that you put a candle in a window to indicate your participation!
We pulled out a hand-cranked radio we keep around for power outages, wound it up, and were delighted to find the local NPR station running a radio play from the 1940s. It was a very cozy evening.
vp - My body tends to want to nap in the dark. Chalk it up to the whole evolutionary "human" thing.
Chris' family has played cribbage at every holiday and while bored when Chris was a kid (his favorite memory of his paternal grandmother involves cribbage). So in order to assimilate myself, I have to play too! It's fun and we spend hours playing sometimes. I might have to institute the tea/scones thing since Chris drinks tea now!
Nancy - We were pretty quiet because we talk all the time so we started to get sleepy with the lights off! We had planned the picture all day too... We put a candle in the window and everyone else left their lights on...tis our environmentally oblivious neighborhood.
You know, when you ultimately do snap and take an ergonomic and organic bazooka into a McMansion cul-de-sac on your bike and start taking out the wasteful "starter castles" for not having vegetable patches in the front yards, they're going to use this photo of you in all the papers remarking how the poor sweet troubled girl ate too many local foods and was possessed.
I was thinking about participating, then remembered that we're usually in bed by 8pm all the time now. Darned one-year olds and their need for sleep! I do love getting 10 hours of sleep a night though!
Glad you guys enjoyed your hour as nature intended :)
I'm sorry I haven't been by your blog for a while because I totally would have done this. That and I had book club that night, though that might have been fun by candlelight. But since I wasn't home, my lights were out -- can I get half a point for that? I love cribbage, but I have to get my fix on Yahoo games because my husband refuses to play even though the 2 times he did he beat me and I'm pretty good since I started playing at age 8. Too bad you live all the way on the other side of the country, it would be fun to have you over for dinner and cards!
jim/artofgardening - You completely made me spit my coffee everywhere and laugh out loud! They say one person can make a difference, I just hope mine is with flowers, fruit, and vegetables in the front yard (no bazookas!)
Lotus - 10 hours of sleep a night? I think this "parent" club is highly secretive. I don't recall hearing about the 10 hours of sleep a night thing....hmmm.
Heather - If your book club did this, you'd have to read passages by candlelight - which is difficult enough! Sure, it counts that you're lights were off. 1/2 point for you. Perhaps if we ever come through (enter your town's name here), you and my husband can have a cribbage match. He beats my a$$ every time.
Let's see, I cooked in the dark, with no candles...I get 500 points! lol. I lose 250 for not explaining the importance to the people wandering around the house turning lights on asking me "Why is it so dark in here?" after waking up. They turned all the tv's on, most of the lights, stayed up for 25 minutes, then they left everything on and went back to bed. AHHH! *pulls hair out* lol.
Had to work. Would have loved to participate.
jen x - I missed you the first couple recomment go-rounds! My bad. Is it one of those hand-cranked solar radio deals? I've always thought those were cool. thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment, and participating in Earth Hour!
Garrett - 500 points for you for effort.
Kim&Victoria - Bummer that you had to work so late. But hopefully that means your house still participated with no one home!
You should look into the amount of CO2 released by burning candles vs using an electric light source...as well as the embodied energy of the two sources. Maybe use it as a energy use or consumption write up. Cheers.
That's some cool "dracula lighting" in that photo. Bwahhahhahhaaaa..... Lighting from low angles makes the shadows fall above your cheeks. Neat effect. Does your camera have a custom white balance feature?
Anon - Hmm. Wish I knew who you were. But you raise a good point.
amorris - I'm a dummy when it comes to my camera sometimes. Yeah, the shadows are oh-so-flattering I know, but perhaps tonight when we do our lights out again, we'll play with more camera settings - I think Chris played with them to get this picture also...
Winding down in low light for a while before you try to go to sleep is a good idea. The direct threshold between fully lit and dark that we have in the modern world isn't all that natural, and it's no wonder it takes the body a little while to adjust.
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