Mar 29, 2008
What could you do with an hour? What change could you make with one hour? How could you not only impact your life, but the life of others in just 60 minutes?
Great question and it is the question that you should answer today in your journal. But today at 8pm wherever you are in your time zone turn off the lights, unplug the tv (if it’s plugged in it still uses power), turn the heat down…
It’s a great opportunity to spend time with each other, play a board game, read by candle light. JUST DO IT!
I hope you all do this VERY little thing to help impact the world!
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Please post your thoughts on what you would do with that 60 minutes!
Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership on Mar 29, 2008 at 8:48 am | Permanent Link | Comments (4)
Comment posted on Jun 6, 2008 at 9:18 am by PamLamb (YLCC Guest)
Well with the sixty minutes I took a breather. I stopped stressing, I stopped looking at my computer screen for the millionith hour today, and I took a break. I hung out with my roommates, just catching up on each other’s lives, you’d be surprised how little we actually see of each other. Most importantly I enjoyed the little things in life, the things that don’t take money, resources, just time and that’s all I had, and honestly I wouldn’t have chosen anything else.
Comment posted on Jun 6, 2008 at 9:18 am by Anonymous (YLCC Guest)
In a hour i bet you could buy at lest 15 hot chocolates and give them to the poor.
Comment posted on Jun 6, 2008 at 9:19 am by Jessome (YLCC Guest)
My sixty minutes were no different than any other shift I’ve ever worked. I chuckled to myself at 8:30pm, and did another round as I watched over about 50 people crammed in the pool. No lights turned off, not a one even dimmed in the rec building I was working in.
I stopped and poked my head through the emergency exit door, I looked at approximately 100 massive guest suites, and about half of them were fully lit. The ones that were dark on the inside were well-lit from the outside with security lights, about 30 per building.
The only consolation I suppose, would be the fact that the rec building I was in served as a common gathering point, and so maybe 50 lights were on, but perhaps 100-150 were off because those guests weren’t in their suites.
With an hour, I’d love to go door to door on the nearly 500 suites at my job, and ask the tenants “Why can’t you take the time here?” It’s not just Earth hour though.... I see so many sad examples of ignorance towards the environment that it makes my head spin. Imagine, a business with 1200 visitors on a weekend, that doesn’t recycle.
For nearly 3 years we didn’t recycle- and not for a lack of trying. Unfortunately, many of our visitors neglected to sort their garbage from recycling, and threw garbage in any bin they could find. We eventually lost our recycling contract, and have just recently established a new one. Our management tries to “Go Green” in everything they do, but our visitors seem less and less inclined to help.
With that hour, I would ask each guest (or as many as I could in that hour), what is so incredibly important that they can’t take 2 minutes to sort their recycling? I know not every visitor is the villain, and I would ask those visitors that do care to give me a hand, and see if we can’t change something.
Comment posted on Jun 6, 2008 at 9:19 am by Stacey (YLCC Guest)
I am sad to report that I too could not perticipate in earth hour. I was also at work, and as much as I tried to convince my boss that closing 1 hour earlier would be benifical in so many ways it did not work. So I sat there in a building with the lights on heat blasting, and not perticipating in any one percent action steps toward helping the enviornment.
When I asked prople later on if they were involved they replied with no, or what was I suppose to do? There were even a few who did not know what I was talking about.
It is wrong how people rely on power in order to survive. Of coarse it is needed in todays society, but so is quality time with your family friends and even yourself. People need to take a step back and relax sometimes, they need to see what they have and appreciate it. They need to realize that they can help too, one step at a time.