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Brenton Trafford
TryHard
SA
V8 Limited - UZZ31

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 12:13 pm, by:  Brenton Trafford (Traff) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

EARTH HOUR - 7.30pm to 8.30pm - Saturday March 31, 2007

Earth Hour is a fabulous opportunity for you and your family to do something about climate change. On one night, in one hour, more will be done, more will be demonstrated, and more will be learned than through a hundred 'talk-fests'. And you can help make it happen.

What is Earth Hour?

It sounds simple, but it is very, very dramatic. At 7.30pm on March 31st 2007, we will be encouraging companies, government departments, individuals and families to turn off their lights for just one hour. If we meet our objectives during the first Earth Hour, the savings in green house gas emissions will be the equivalent of taking 75,000 medium sized cars off the road for one whole year! Now that's something worth doing.

Why? The facts are alarmingly clear:

* The climate is changing! The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 1990. In fact 2005 was the hottest year since record keeping began. (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

* Almost 70% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions come from energy production. (ABS)

* More than 95% of the Great Barrier Reef will have been destroyed by 2050 if carbon dioxide emissions aren't reduced. (WWF-International)

* One million species worldwide are facing extinction due to climate change. (University of Leeds)

But not everybody listens to the facts. Earth Hour is your opportunity to demonstrate how a simple change in our way of life could change, and help save, our planet.

The goals of Earth Hour:

* Households : Most of us use unnecessary electricity. Appliances on standby, old style light bulbs, lights left on when we're not using them. Earth Hour will help us all to realise just how simply we can make a dramatic impact upon global warming (and our own power bills). We will see it in action.

* Companies : We want companies to be involved. If every company in Australia turned off its lights when the buildings weren't in use, and combined it with energy saving technology, we would save between 2 and 4 million tonnes of greenhouse gasses every year. Earth Hour will show companies just how easy that is.

* Power Companies : We will be asking power companies to provide special deals for companies and households to switch to Green Power.

* To make it an annual event : Out of the 8,766 hours in a year, let's give one back to the earth.

What you can do:

* Sign up to Earth Hour and Pledge to turn off your lights on March 31st from 7.30pm to 8.30pm by logging onto
http://www.earthhour.org

You will receive all the information you need to make Earth Hour a great success (and to cut your own energy bills in the long term). Pledging is free.

* Get off standby : Turn off all the electronic equipment and appliances in your home that are not being used or are on standby. Computers, televisions, stereo equipment, phone chargers, DVD or video equipment - you can find out more about this from WWF at wwf.org.au

* Tell a friend : Spread the word about Earth Hour by involving your friends, family and workmates. Get them to pledge at earthhour.org and most importantly, turn off the lights at 7.30pm Saturday 31 March 2007.

* Another thing you can do before the event is switch to Green Power: Contact your electricity provider today. If all Australians switched to Green Power the saving in CO2 emissions would be the equivalent of what is pumped out of 40 million cars! That's like taking every car in Australia off the road four times over.

* Spread the word - Once you have signed up for Earth Hour tell a friend; spread the word at work; tell your boss; mention it at school, at your local sports club or society group, you can even run it past your neighbours!

* Make it an event. Get the neighbours to switch off their lights and head out into the park for the hour; take some binoculars and look at the stars; sit and talk; explore your backyard by torchlight; have fun with sparklers; or just go for a stroll. Do something non-electric as a family - make some candles, read by their light; have a picnic-at-dusk; pretend you are camping; have a candlelight dinner.

For more info on Earth Hour, check out www.earthhour.org


EARTH HOUR. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Tim Eacott
Goo Roo
ACT/Canberra
JZZ30 Factory Manual Lux Pack

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 12:37 pm, by:  Tim Eacott (Timme) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

But it will be dark if i turn everything off...
Tim Eacott
Goo Roo
ACT/Canberra
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 12:38 pm, by:  Tim Eacott (Timme) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh also... this won't work for NSW... We have a Dyno day that night... hehe
Braden Murdoch
TryHard
NSW
Cressida 1JZ TT

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 01:47 pm, by:  Braden Murdoch (Ribfeast) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Send all that horsepower to the electricity grid ;)
John Tibbs
TryHard
WA
JZA70 R (BLMQZ)

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 02:06 pm, by:  John Tibbs (Zombie) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

oh god what a pile of utter
Aaron Mead
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NT
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 02:45 pm, by:  Aaron Mead (Aaron) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Im gonna richen up my mixtures and drop some long smokey burnouts.
Adam Peterson
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Western Australia
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 03:32 pm, by:  Adam Peterson (President) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

where can i hug a tree ?
Tim Eacott
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 03:47 pm, by:  Tim Eacott (Timme) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ikea?
Mike Bradberry
DieHard
Queensland
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 04:24 pm, by:  Mike Bradberry (Halflife) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Apathy rules.
Justin Hughes
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 04:30 pm, by:  Justin Hughes (Juzza) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

HAhahahahahaaaaaa - I'm gonna turn on ALL THE LIGHTS and put my Guitar Amplifiers and PA to 11 !!!!!!!! FOR 4 HOURS - MUHUHUHUHAHAHAHAHAAAA
Brenton Trafford
TryHard
SA
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 04:39 pm, by:  Brenton Trafford (Traff) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

You know... it's people like you that get shot in the back during wars ..........
Ben Daniel
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WA
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 04:52 pm, by:  Ben Daniel (Lexustt) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oi Hippie... woodstock finished 40 odd years ago.
Miles Baker
DieHard
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 05:23 pm, by:  Miles Baker (Milesb) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Brenton Trafford wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 12:13 pm:

Another thing you can do before the event is switch to Green Power: Contact your electricity provider today. If all Australians switched to Green Power the saving in CO2 emissions would be the equivalent of what is pumped out of 40 million cars! That's like taking every car in Australia off the road four times over.



Exactly where is all that green power going to come from? Are they going to paint the coal stations green or something?

And everyone turning off their lights doesn't shut down the coal plant. That's not how it works.
Greg Nikitiuk
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 06:00 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


Miles Baker wrote on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 05:23 pm:

Exactly where is all that green power going to come from? Are they going to paint the coal stations green or something?




you meter box is going to be painted green too.
David Vaughan
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ACT
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 07:19 pm, by:  David Vaughan (Davidv) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Honda have painted their 2007 F1 car earth blue and green, so I think that should work just as well here.
Luke Nieuwhof
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WA
Soarer TT

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 07:26 pm, by:  Luke Nieuwhof (Luke_nieuwhof) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Actually this probably won't make a difference to greenhouse gases whatsoever. I imagine it wold be more economical for a power station to keep their generators running through the hour than shutting them down and having to restart them. Actually from memory shut downs are very rare and difficult.

Special deals on green power? Green power is more expensive to produce than coal power. I don't disagree with renewable energy, but we are going to need to charge people more for it. We should be charging more for water as well actually.

The earth has actually only increased in temperature by .2 of a degree in the last 50 years.

If anyone has time or cares: Do some Googling about global warming being more like a religion than anything else. It's quite interesting.
Tim Eacott
Goo Roo
ACT/Canberra
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 07:43 pm, by:  Tim Eacott (Timme) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If you care about the environment you wouldn't drive a soarer... lol
Peter Nitschke
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 08:02 pm, by:  Peter Nitschke (Pen) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The generators won't be under as much load, so won't need as much coal to power them.
Steven Anderson
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NSW
UZZ31

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 08:11 pm, by:  Steven Anderson (Cusscuss) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

dam, i wanted to be in the city for this, stupid dyno day
Aaron Mead
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NT
TT

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 09:39 pm, by:  Aaron Mead (Aaron) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Meh, we'll be out of fossil fuels before anything happens.
Greg Nikitiuk
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 10:16 pm, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

yeah. I can turn power off to save coal.
but instead of sitting inside a dark silent home I will take my V8 for a drive
Mike Bradberry
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Friday, March 09, 2007 - 08:09 am, by:  Mike Bradberry (Halflife) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The only reason I fitted headers was to save fuel and help the environment.
Ah, maybe I'm lying.
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31

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Friday, March 09, 2007 - 08:27 am, by:  Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Auckland City Council is introducing "green" parking spaces for hybrid car owners and vehicles 1.3 litres and under. They will allow owners of such cars to use reserved premium spots in council owned parking facilities. They will also be considering free or reduced rate parking for "environmentally friendly" vehicles in the central business district.

I bet my Soarer puts out less toxic emissions than most clapped out, poorly maintained 1.3 litre POS that drive around Auckland. Also, is it that hard to WALK A FEW EXTRA METERS to your car? Makes sense for pregnant woman and disabled people, but basing it on what car you drive? COME ON!
Greg Nikitiuk
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Friday, March 09, 2007 - 08:45 am, by:  Greg Nikitiuk (Jestr) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

next thing you'll see is green tax on anything bigger then 1.9ltr, or registration fees increase accordingly with your engine capacity.
Joseph D'Agostino
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Victoria
JZZ30

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Friday, March 09, 2007 - 08:48 am, by:  Joseph D'Agostino (Mia) Edit Post Delete Post Print Post   View Post/Check IP (Moderator/Admin Only) Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We might be lucky enough to see the ecological destruction of the world.

Future generations will be so proud of our efforts.

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