Earth Hour...what's that?

Dear friends,

So, Earth Hour (a friend refers to it as 'green hour'...) had come and gone. An hour of no lights or electrical appliances. At least that was the case for us at home.

We spent the evening with friends for dinner, celebrating the moment. A motley group of people gathered for delicious Indian cooking, with all sorts of desserts - including Becca's infamous lemon chess pie...! In between it all we had good wine, interesting conversations and a scattering of kids for entertainment.

At 8h30pm we switched all the lights off, and candles took center stage. We dipped outside to see if the streetlights or neighbors had switched off. Nope. What? How could this be? Are people just not interested or does it not make sense to switch lights and appliances of for an hour? Up to last night I had believed that the world (particularly neighbors...) will participate in this grand event to show our commitment to live more sustainably. I was even told that that the local City Council will turn the street lights off. I was wrong. I was naive. For now, I have to live with that.

Did anyone do anything during Earth Hour. If you did, I would love to hear about it! Just by chance, it might inspire to me remain hopeful. Alas, what keeps us alive if not hope? I discovered as I was writing this post that over 36 million people in the US switched off. If that's true, then I'm impressed!

So that's my story for today. Feel free to leave some comments.

Live large!


Ali