Posts Tagged ‘wind-up flashlights’

Earth Hour

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Did you miss it?  On March 28th, many people shut off the lights for an hour.  If you forgot, not to worry!  We don’t always need electricity and some of the best moments can be created without it.  Alison Ferguson and Meaghan Relkie from Every Little Bit have some great ideas on how to spend some non-electricity time with your kids..

So…what can you do in the dark for an hour?

  • Hide all the stuffed animals around the house & have a scavenger hunt in the dark
  • Play the Game of Life to candles (Thanks to Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore)
  • Tell ghost stories while creating scary faces with your flashlights.
  • Create an under-the-covers reading club
  • Put small objects in a bag & have people guess what they are (nothing sharp please)
  • Dance in the dark

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Port Moody mom wants to do her part by turning out the lights on Saturday

Friday, March 27th, 2009

triCityNews – Diane Strandberg

Alison Ferguson doesn’t think she’ll change the world by switching off her lights for an hour this Saturday. But the Port Moody mother of two young daughters thinks she’ll feel pretty good when she snuggles up to read them a story with a flashlight under the cover of darkness.

“It’s more of a symbolic gesture,” says Ferguson.

But there could be a significant environmental payoff in reduced demand for electricity if millions of individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world turn off power-sucking equipment, appliances and lights.

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