As if you have not been inundated enough with Earth Hour 2009 news, here is another attempt to encourage you to participate.<\/p>\n
Saturday March 28th from 20:30-21:30 EDT is Earth Hour<\/a>. So, Along with the City of Kingston we encourage you to join in.<\/p>\n Here at work we will be shutting down non-essential systems, computers, air At home we plan on running this event for most of the day, powering down We also plan on taking Sky Quality Meter readings before during and after. So the skies will not be totally dark as they would have been otherwise in Clear Skies… Keep observing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As if you have not been inundated enough with Earth Hour 2009 news, here is another attempt to encourage you to participate. Saturday March 28th from 20:30-21:30 EDT is Earth Hour. An attempt at bringing attention to various things, global climate change, outrageous resource usage, waste, placating astronomers and more. From its humble roots in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAn attempt at bringing attention to various things, global climate change,
\noutrageous resource usage, waste, placating astronomers and more. From its
\nhumble roots in 2007. I am amazed at the growth and reach of this initiative.
\nIts real affects are small, but getting the concepts of conservation, pollution
\nand waste into the attention span of the average citizen is a start.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.cityofkingston.ca\/residents\/environment\/earth-hour.asp<\/a>
\nand
\nQueen’s University
\nhttp:\/\/qnc.queensu.ca\/campusnews_article_loader.php?id=47ea7028736aa<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhandling units for the weekend starting Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\nnon-essential electrical devices, turning off non-essential computer systems,
\nkeeping all of the lights off from morning until evening, and if clear, be
\noutside enjoying the night skies during the actual event itself. <\/p>\n
\nThe only downside are the idiot politicians who moved daylight savings to early
\nMarch, blindly assuming it is a good thing, when modern studies show that it is
\nnot… I would go as far to say as detrimental to energy use and conservation.<\/p>\n
\nEastern Standard Time.<\/p>\n