Earth Hour

Tonight we celebrate Earth Hour, perhaps the most important thing that nobody seems to know nor care about.  A WWF initiative, Earth Hour's premise is simple: turn out your lights (and everything else that runs on electricity) for a whole hour, starting at 8:30 pm whatever time zone you're in.  It's a gesture more than anything, a sign that we at least acknowledge global warming and the effects of rampant energy consumption.  But few people know about it, and fewer still will actually go dark.  Some of us will forget, some of us will not be able to live without TV's warming glow for so much as an hour, and some of us will be nervous about giving to much power to the dreaded candlewax consortium.  But, at least, it's an effort.  You've gotta start somewhere.  Right?