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Post March 29th, 2008, 11:54 am

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Is anybody participating in Earth Hour? Go to Google.com's homepage and click the Earth Hour link about midway throught the page.
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Post March 29th, 2008, 2:15 pm

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I leave things off as much as possible as is, so I guess I'm *technically* participating.

Post March 29th, 2008, 5:22 pm

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I love how Google has turned out the lights on their homepage in respect to the aforementioned "Earth Hour".

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Post March 29th, 2008, 5:31 pm
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yeah it was nice..
i'm so stoked.. i'm sure they really changed alot of what "was" wrong with the world..
phew. that was a close one.. i really thought we were all gunna die of global warming until i saw that they did that ..
by the way.. i hate to sound all cynical, but if you read into it you might notice that city "governments" are involved. that isnt good..

Post March 29th, 2008, 5:59 pm

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C.C. should "turn the light out" on this site, i.e. black background, buttons, etc.
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Post March 29th, 2008, 6:13 pm

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I'll be participating. I sent out about 20 texts to my friends and they're all participating. Oh man I should make a quick coaster and release it before it starts at 8pm [:)]

Post March 29th, 2008, 7:02 pm

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That is a great idea. Do that.
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Post March 30th, 2008, 7:18 am

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the reason the google dosnt have the black theme permenently is

according to a note on the site. "As to why we don't do this permanently -- it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display," says Google.


which is true, hence its BS about that alternative black google that they have somewhere
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Post March 30th, 2008, 11:21 am

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Google didn't make their background black to save electricity. Do you know how many people access Google each day? Thousands, maybe millions. They were trying to spread the word.
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Post March 30th, 2008, 11:49 am

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Well Earth Hour has been over for a couple hours. I was at the movies from 8-9 so my lights and other electronics were off.
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Post March 30th, 2008, 12:05 pm
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I left all the lights on and left the house last night so I wouldn't have someone breaking in [:)] I did not participate in Earth Hour but I did my part to compensate for the people that did participate. [lol]
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Post March 30th, 2008, 12:55 pm

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Post March 30th, 2008, 1:09 pm

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i think i was on the computer, and watching tv during earth hour.
my bad.
but then again, oh well. i could turn my stuff off any other hour of the day.
example.... when i sleep.

Post March 30th, 2008, 1:09 pm

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I don't have to turn off my lights, Eskom does it for me.

Post March 30th, 2008, 9:10 pm
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At earth hour the clock shifted here from 2am to 3am, so yeah... Nothing was on during that period [lol]
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Post March 30th, 2008, 9:26 pm

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i participated... i was at a hockey game [;)]
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Post March 30th, 2008, 9:46 pm

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I didn't really participate, but I always make sure that lights are off when rooms are not being used.

Post March 30th, 2008, 9:57 pm

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One hour? How does that do anything to reduce the amount of fossil fuels we're burning?

I don't get it.

Post March 30th, 2008, 11:27 pm

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Post March 31st, 2008, 1:04 am

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Originally posted by haydawg149

it's not even march 31st yet, wtf?


it was on the 29th
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Post April 2nd, 2008, 3:41 pm

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i see kevin's point, even though my family and i did participate we were all like "well what's the point? there's gonna be hundreds of people who forget, deliberately turn everything on for a laugh, or just plain don't care" and it's true! no matter what you Maccabees say.
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