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/ dave /
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: michael northam
> To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:44:13 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: voluntary solstice blackout
> Message-ID:
> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105181211510.11694-100000 at preg.org>
>
> ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER JUNE
> 21, 2001 THURS EVE,
> 7-10pm 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 21 at 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 to the
> Sungoddess, 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.