Lights out! for an hour

You do plan to celebrate Earth Hour don't you?  Such a small and simple thing you can do to make a significant difference.  It's so dirt simple, it's genius. On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m. local time, turn off your lights for an hour. You can do that can't you?

This annual event, created by the World Wildlife Fund started out as a regional idea to get a message through to us occasionally thick headed energy consuming humans. That message being.. One person doing one thing DOES matter. The initiative began in Sydney last year when an estimated two million residents took part, cutting energy usage by more than 10% for the hour.  Organisers expect hundreds of towns and cities across the world to take part in the event and hope some capitals not officially involved, such as London and Rome, will mark the event by dimming lights on some landmarks.

Maybe if this message sinks in, and the human race does indeed "get it", people like you and me will be more prone to do that one little thing everyday. Pick up that one piece of trash blowing in the wind at the bus stop. Put that one brick in the toilet tank. Walk to the corner market once in a while. One is a very powerful number, when there are billions of them.

Anyways, I'll be doing my lights out hour playing poker by candle light, and once I've lost my bankroll of M & Ms, I'll play my acoustic guitar for a bit... Oh the agony!