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). It's 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(copy this post and foward it)
rolling blackout
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