Anyone can participate in Earth Hour

The real challenge is keeping the lights off for 4 hours or if you are really dedicated for 2 weeks!

I don't know how many participated, or what sort of effect we had on the overall energy usage during the hour but I know that I felt better about myself. I convinced a couple people to observe Earth Hour (since that silly liberal media for some reason didn't make sure everyone knew about it, or really hardly anyone) and I attended an Earth Hour party where we decided to just not turn the lights back on because we didn't need them.

This was an exercise.
1 hour will not save the world or even make a difference in the long run.
But it will hopefully be able to draw more attention to the climate crisis and how little things can make a difference. Think of it this way, you can lose weight by going on a diet and being really strict about what you eat and you can probably stick to it for awhile and loose some weight, but if you don't make a fundamental shift in your lifestyle it is not going to last and you are going to put the weight right back on. Really the key is the little things like drinking water and diet drinks instead of Coke and sugary drinks or using mustard instead of mayo. These are 2 small things that you can do to permanently change your eating habits that may not cause immediate changes, but over the long term it will make a HUGE difference.

This is much like that. Its the little things you can do (which don't even take much effort) that can make a big difference. Hopefully tonight we learned that we don't need as many lights on in our houses and to always make sure to turn off the light in the room you just left.
If we can slowly start to make a change in the way that we live, we just may be able to make a change in the climate crisis. Surprisingly it won't take too much effort on any one person's part, but instead if everyone does a little bit, together we can save the world.

If you don't do it to save the world, at least do it for me.