What if…?
The Earth Day is behind us and unfortunately, many people will most likely fall back into their old habits… In order to celebrate the big day, many cities around the world, for instance Chicago, New York, Rome, Paris, Tokyo etc. turned off the lights for one hour on March 31. In Chicago alone (according to Oprah) the energy saved during that hour equals to one million cars taken off the road for an hour. Imagine the impact and the amount of energy saved taking into consideration all the big cities.
So why can’t we do it more often?—I ask… It isn’t that imaginable to live without all these neon signs and the forever-on lights for just one hour every so often, is it? Or am I imagining things? Shouldn’t we look at the big picture instead of our own comfort for just a fraction of time? I think we have come to take things for granted and don’t quite stop to think what impact it would have if we simply gave up a small thing, one bad habit or a bit of our daily comfort…
I am not proposing all the town and cities around the world would turn the lights off for an hour every week (although it would be something, wouldn’t it?) but perhaps once a month or a quarter? I don’t think it is such an outlandish idea, is it?