Earth Hour 2009

We're a free-wheeling, environmentally conscious lot here in Berkeley, so of course something as bleeding heartedly liberal as Earth Hour is going to appeal to us. This is where lights are turned out all over the planet for one hour at 8.30pm local time. So the Sydney Opera House went dark, as did the Pyramids, the Olympic stadia in China, and the Eiffel Tower (but only for five minutes - don't get me started on the French).

Luckily for us we'd invited ourselves over to Loren and Tamara's for dinner (what were we going to do for an hour in the dark on our own?) We were polite enough to bring the food, and had a great evening chatting by candlelight. There was so much to talk about we managed two-and-a-half hours of planet saving! I won't calculate the damage caused by all the hot air that we generated...



Friends provide light in even the darkest places. Candles help too.