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Earth Hour - possible in Poland? [62]
(I live in a dark sky community that purposely minimizes light pollution. People who visit here often comment on the star sky that we have....especially if they have always lived in a city)
OK...I can't sleep:(
I have to admit, the most beautiful sky I have witnessed besides sundown in Wyoming/Montana, is the night sky in San Isabel National Forest in Colorado....I never realized there were so many stars in the sky....I definitely want to go back.....it was definitely one of my favorite places to camp.
I never heard of this until today, but it made me think of some very simple things that I can do to contribute more, without any real effort on my part.
See, this is where the problem is - "easy". It ain't easy. A flip of the switch once a year for one hour won't solve anything, and it won't even contribute anything significant to the reduction of pollution and greenhouse gases. Real solutions result from real work/sacrifices. Why don't you change all your bulbs to compact fluorescent ones. If you have 10 of them, then this will save way more than turning twenty 60W bulbs for one hour 365 days a year.
I actually have 15 of them.....as for the lights I spoke about earlier, they are long bulb, florescent lights, and I have yet to see them sold in the US as eco-friendly. In the meantime, I will keep them off (my cats will just have to find their way to the litter box in the dark (for more than one hour per year, which I think is the point).
