hi sarah, I wish I would've brought my camera, it was awesome...we live on the coast so it would go from rain to sunny within minutes...and the artist in the sky paints awesome paintings all the time..(((((HUGS)))))

hi Anne, thanks so much for the info, that's it, Earth Hour...

I will look it up and I like the proposal of the converted savings for the council. I have been very fortunate to run into my current friend/client. He is a very deep thinker and when we get together, we bounce off ideas off of each other...

he is also a brilliant man who is self-made...and I am learning a lot from him...



thanks very much for your input, mel...

I think a lot of us truly caring citizens such as yourself do the little things that really make differences. And I think by recycling, by doing our little thing such as changing all our lightbulbs to the energy bulbs help also...

and really, that is all we can do, especially when a lot of us are in pain both physically and mentally and really...we ARE making a difference..

I'll admit, I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew...

yet, the opportunity has presented itself to me...I consider myself lucky...I am in a position where I know someone who is in power to make a difference. He's actually interested in my inputs...

I think we all walk different paths, right or wrong, we have to take a chance sometimes...

this is a chance that currently, I'd like to take...because I felt that if I hadn't gone out for a walk that day, if the electricity hadn't gone out, I would still be sitting infront of the computer sulking...

it opened my eyes that day...it helped brought me out of a rut that I had been in for awhile now...

so, I am going to take advantage of that...

with that said...

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I really have been thinking about this for awhile now...

I have looked up how energy is wasted vs how it is being used.

For example (I am going to give out quasi numbers just to make a point and it is not actual figures)

let's say an electric plant is about 30 miles from you. Let's just say that it makes 30 miles of grid line (to make the math easy).

let's say that for every second that you have one light bulb/lightbulb on, 3watts of energy are being used.

However, it took 80 watts of energy for this energy to get to you.

Sure, we only pay for what we use (supposedly) but there are 80 watts being lost...

that 80 watts ARE LOST...

(if any engineers can correct me and give me exact figures, that would be awesome)

lost energy means lost of money...and that's where I think we can save...

one hour...once a week...

and I was thinking only promoting this during the months where it is comfortable.

I wouldn't try this year long especially during summer time, that might create more fire...

I was also thinking of promoting this more along a line of long term vs. fad.

We all know how fad gets caught on and then it just dies...I've seen many ideas that were great and they'd come and go...

what I am thinking is long term...planting a seed into the younger children...

that years from now, when they move somewhere else, and they think about the quality time they have spent with their families sitting by the candle light...that it would make them want to turn off the lights with their kids...

saving energy and spending quality time together...

and it doesn't even have to be lighting up the candle. Perhaps going out for a walk...or whatever activity...

I know, big task...that is why I love the inputs...



thanks everyone...