From: "Ivanna Pee" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:40:10
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ROLL YOUR OWN BLACK OUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
JUNE 21, 2001 THURS
EVE, 7-10 pm worldwide, all time zones
As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of
emphasis
on
efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will
be a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day of summer,
June 21at 7pm - 10pm in any time zone (this will roll it across the
planet).
Its a simple protest and a symbolic act. Turn out your lights from
7pm-10pm
on
June 21. Unplug whatever you can unplug in your house.
Light a candle, kiss and tell or not, take a stroll
in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not electronic - have
fun
in
the dark.
Read the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by Hawken and Lovins to learn
that
conservation/high efficiency technologies already ARE on-the-shelf. If
implemented these revolutionary ideas would pay
themselves off within five years, after which we'd be pumping far less
greenhouse gas into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot.
Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government
representatives
and environmental contacts.
Let them know we want global education, participation and funding in
conservation, efficiency and alternative fuel efforts -- and an end to
over-exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources.
Anyone knows that the Cheney-Bush team is blowing smoke when they tell
us
that
"... conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement
those
technologies..." While on the other hand, technology to develop and
deploy
weapons to blow incoming ICBMs out of the sky
are easy to come by.
Rosalind Renfrew, PhD dissertator
Department of Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1630 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-7595
{P.S. Remember to shut off your power strips and other "always on"
electrical
components, as well.
This sounds like a low tech method to reduce consumption for one day.
What
do you have to lose?}
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