Author: Dave March 30, 2008

A very cool idea, turn off your lights for one hour and save tons of electricity for your city, help the environment, and make a statement. For those who haven’t heard, Earth Hour started in Sydney Australia in March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour, and last night millions of Americans and countless other countries joined in. Very cool!

I decided that PXL Designs, LLC certainly must go green. Last night between 8-9pm I turned everything off and camped out in the living room with the acoustic guitar and had a sort of dimly lit party by candle light. It’s a small price to pay to make such a huge difference, and the coolest part is showing the big corporations that the PEOPLE on this planet don’t like the silliness going on. Grass roots movements are extremely cool! Big cities like Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco joined in last night to make a statement. Not surprisingly, my old stomping grounds, NYC didn’t sign up, but I tend to think that has more to do with Mr. Bloomberg than the citizens of NY. Most of them that I know would and have joined in, but Bloomies wouldn’t want you to turn off his wonderful tv channel lest you be awakened from your hypno-stock exchange induced trance for a while and slip out of his control. Ha, just joshing ya Mike…..ya basti’d 🙂

Having lived in “the environment” for so many years, I’ve become pretty attached to it, as you might imagine. So I figured it’s a small price to pay to show some solidarity with the rest of the world and sign my company to take part in Earth Hour, and you should give it a look too if you haven’t already, since most of you probably live in “the environment” as well. I say this because I know very well that more than a few of you who read my blog regularly don’t necessarily reside in this environment, but rather, somewhere in outter-space most likely.

So I say, the next time Mike Bloomberg hops the train to work, turn the power off in the middle of the ride and you can utilize that time while stuck under the city of NY (as I have many times) to tell him how pissed off you are that he won’t shut off his silly tv channel for a stinking hour once a year, and tell him you’d like to enact a law that bans all Bloombergs from the bars, subway system, and positions in office in the city of NY, and I’m sure it’ll be an hour well spent. Plus, you’ll be doing future generations and the Earth a huge favor in the process.

Happy Belated Earth Hour!

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