AudubonDon

iamcantaloupe at 10:17AM October 07

this sounds awesome! i live in the indy area and would be happy to help you guys! great idea!

iampotatoes at 10:18AM October 07

I also am very interested in this project and would like to help if i can. I think this is a terrific idea.

iamcabbage at 10:19AM October 07

this looks splendid, i would love to try this any time, but we don’t turn off all the electronics do we?

ewmsk12 at 10:23AM October 07

no, we wouldn’t have people turn off appliances like refrigerators if they didn’t want to

iamcantaloupe at 10:26AM October 07

Isn’t this just soo wonderful, it gives me the heebie-jeebies!

K-Blue-H at 10:26AM October 07

awesome idea! everyone should do this!!

iamcabbage at 10:27AM October 07

okay thanks for the clarification!

bmwm3gtr at 10:33AM October 07

my ps3 uses 5 times more energy than my fridge maybe i should turn that off

AudubonDon at 3:19PM October 07

Earth Hour for 2010 is something that we at the Amos W. Butler Audubon Society will be promoting. We would be eager to work together with you to help promote the event. Earth Hour in 2010 will be Saturday, March 27 between 8pm and 9pm (sunset at 8:04pm). We are interested in Earth Hour because it ties into our own initiative named Lights Out Indy (lightsoutindy.org). Lights Out Indy is an effort to get building owners and managers in Indianapolis, primarily downtown, to reduce the amount of unnecessary lighting between midnight and dawn during peak migration months. Urban lighting confuses nocturnal migrating songbirds and thousands of them are killed by flying into windows, which they do not perceive as an obstacle. The start of peak spring migration is April 1 so Earth Hour dovetails nicely with our Lights Out efforts. Our website has much more information and includes photos of just some of the dead birds we have found downtown during 2009. The issue is not readily noticeable to people downtown because one of the first things maintenance does in the morning is to clean up the dead and injured birds around their building.

Don Gorney
President, Amos W. Butler Audubon Society
Coordinator, Lights Out Indy

ewmsk12 at 8:47PM October 08

alright, that sounds good. i’m glad that you’re interested.

i-am-cheese at 10:02AM October 09

I agree this would be a great for us to work together on this project.

billybob15964 at 10:19AM October 13

hi
i thin k that this is a really good i dea! when would we have to turn our stuff off? could it not be on monday so i can still watch foot ball. no staurdays either so i can watch college games!

ewmsk12 at 10:33AM October 13

We will schedule Earth Hour in such a way that people will be willing to turn off their appliances at that time. But, yeah. You’ll have to turn almost everything (except refrigerators and things relating to that) to conserve energy. Great question.