Earth Hour - Report from our part of Ottawa

March 30, 2008 by Barbara.

I wrote on Friday about that we would be stargazing during Earth Hour. Ken looked at me questioningly when I suggested it but I, in my rose-coloured glasses, dismissed his concerns about light pollution. It was going to be dark for Earth Hour, after all. Well, I was wrong. There is a SilverCity cinema at the end of our street and as far as I can tell they didn’t turn off so much as a 60 watt bulb. Had they reduced their external lighting, they would have changed ourn neighbourhood substantially But, of course, they didn’t.

We lit a bee’s wax candle instead and read some stories. We talked about not using electricity and how people used to rely on candles for light. I don’t know what Reid made of it. I just read a post at Journeys in Between that suggested using the story of Noah and the Ark to draw  a parallel of how taking action on climate change helps save animals, too. I think that Reid would understand helping animals better than the abstract “helping the earth”.

Bloggers Act: Canada wrote about Earth Hour and the Nelly Furtado concert in Toronto. I wish there had been a “gathering” in Ottawa. It would have been good to have a reason to be downtown where, I think, the difference in light level would have been much more obvious. Next year, I will have to look for an event or make one of my own.

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