Roll Your Own Blackout [RE-wrenches]

[Windy Dankoff, Dankoff Solar]

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Here is a copy of the file, cleaned up for re-sending. This e-mail 
was mentioned in Newsweek! Copy and paste it so you don't add >> 
characters. Those of us with RE lighting should turn ours off too, 
because satellite images won't distinguish where the "missing" light 
comes from.
-- Windy

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ROLL YOUR OWN BLACK OUT
THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE,
7-10pm worldwide, all time zones

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  In protest of 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
sungod, kiss and tell, make love, tell ghost stories,
do something instead of watching television, have fun
in the dark.

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.

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."

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