An experiment in energy will be taking place next Sarturday the 31st of March that I think you should consider becoming a part of, because if it’s going to yeild interesting results, it will need the co-operation of as many people as it can get –
http://earthhour.smh.com.au/
Earth Hour
what is this going to achieve?
I think the idea is to a) stage a bit of a protest against the energy companies and politicians for not making enough use of more environmentally sound methods of energy generation – such as wind-turbines or solar cells, b) try and demonstrate how much energy is actually used by the collective, hopefully making people a bit more aware of the facts c) although debatable how much influence something like this may actually have, hopefully it will lead to a bit of a change in people’s minds on the level of i) how much say they have in the way things are done (for those who take part) if they are prepared to actually do something for what they want to see happen, ii) how much concern there actually is out there for the amount of electricity we generate, and iii) (at least) help people to think about how much we actually rely on electricity in our daily life, and perhaps even why.
There may be more that this could do, but it may do none of these things too. It all depends on how many people take part really…