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One Hour No Power

What are you doing this July 1st? Join me in shutting everything off, even for just an hour...

At midday On Sunday July 1st 2007

we are asking everyone concerned about the effects of climate change to simply turn everything off for an hour. That is one hour with no cars, mobile phones, televisions, household appliances or any other non-vital equipment. We would also like as many businesses as possible to join in and publicly show their commitment to tackling climate change. Effectively, we want to unplug the world for an hour or at least your little bit of it.

One Hour No Power is not just another event about raising our awareness of global warming; after all, the media has been pretty good at scaring us all silly on that one. One Hour No Power is an event to raise awareness of our collective ability to tackle climate change through our everyday lives.

This is a people powered event for all, old and young, multi race, multi faith, as well as for those of no faith. It is an opportunity for us to come together and publicise an event ourselves, help to shape it, swap green ideas and talk to each other instead of being talked to.

It is up to you how you spend the hour. You could hold a sponsored event for your favourite environmental group, take to the roads on your bike, hug a tree (while stocks last), write your personal green action plan for the coming year or even hold a John and Yoko style love-in.

Visit www.onehournopower.com for more information about how you can join in.

Please help to promote One Hour No Power by circulating this email to friends and family.

Thank You!

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 at 2:54 pm and is filed under Activism, Environment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “One Hour No Power”

  1. Great idea. I’ve made a note to put this in our Friday, June 16th “Who Said That?” I plan to try to do this. I need to do it for many reasons.

  2. SeanO – We’re with you, mate! And we’ve email some friends to join in on this cause. Caio..

  3. We’ll be joining in as well. Should be interesting! And now it’s time to pass along the news and blog about it…

  4. Hi SeanO :) GREAT IDEA! I will join you in helping our world, my friend.

  5. onehournopower is a great idea! I did it, although a bit involuntarily. My cellphone was dead and a storm knocked out power out for a couple of hours. It was even a bit too dark in the house to read so I tried to take a nap.. but I just kept laying there thinking.. when is the power going to come back on!

    I need to stop being so dependent on it and try to help out the planet a bit… it was a wakeup call.

  6. This is a great idea! Some fresh air will do me good :)

  7. so how did it go?

  8. I live in the New Haven area of Connecticut and our electric bills have absolutely skyrocketed in the past year. What are some good ways to conserve electricity on a daily basis? Which household electronics and appliances use the most electricity?
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