i watched this documentary recently...

it said that there`s collosus solar flare happened in our sun... and the so called "earth day" where all lights are turned off is just a media diversion for us to turn off.. this move is to avoid major disruption in electromagtism wave onslaught...

anyone have any news on this??

wow..
i actually thought it was an attempt to increase awareness in the ppl about the importance of saving energy and at the same time help keep the earth greener. >.<

somehow, i think that what day what day does not have any effect at all.. take earth day for example.. millions will be spend on ads and educationg people.. but the nagain.. on that day.. people will just celebrate it.. and after that, same thing back to normal

thats probably true for the majority of people.
but if even a handful of people are aware and they take action.
i guess it actually makes a difference.

i support the earth day and close all electric appliances in my house... so need to go shopping until late night

support earth DAY only? hanya satu hari??

why not support it hari hari...?

Earth day? Little did you know the activation energy for electrical appliances like air-con, computer...etc is damn high? You're actually wasting more energy than conserving any when you simply turn it off for 1 hour and turn it on again.

Er.. what's that? XD

The solar flare thing is untrue. We switch off during night time, which is on the opposite site of the sun. If it were a direct hit, we should switch off the power on the site facing the sun.

Solar flare is a phenomenal where there are wave-like activity on the sun, where is create a large fire ring few thousand of kilometer high into the space. It create electomagnetic wave and propogates outward. Normal flare don't affect us much, but once a while, an extremely large flare may disrupt our communication and electronics devices.

If you watch the movie "Knowing", the event that happen at the end of the movie is due to solar flare. There is another fiction book by Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter, title "Sunstorm".

I dont know the real reason behind it, but if it was the truth, I believe telling the truth will have much more impact than "lying" about earth day thing.

Oh. I see. Thanks, though it took me few reads to understand it XD

But not higher than 1 hour of usage or the said appliances.

Depending on the type of appliances as well.
1 hour of usage of a hot-plate consumes alot of electrical power!!

I felt that many didn't understand the meaning behind Earth Day/Hour.
Anyway, what I've always felt strongly is that each of us should do our part in ensuring sustainable development of the planet

This only works if people don't adopt the aiya, the others will do it mentality.

how so true
So goes the joke:

'It's a job that anybody can do.
Everybody thought somebody else would do it.
In the end nobody did it.'

the effort put in to promote the day itself is far more dissipating than any other ordinary days.

The effort to promote earth day is a waste of resources. Then the firework generate heat and release greenhouse gases, which is not good to earth as well.

People still use plastic bag when doing grocery. Whenever possible, don't use plastic bag, try those canvas bag, or put your stuff into one single plastic bag rather than letting the counter to put your thing into another plastic bag. Even those degrable plastic bag, it still take up resource to manufacturer it.

Depends perhaps. For me i'd use plastic bags, because then at home i can turn them in to rubbish bags.
Because otherwise i'd still buy those blue colour rubbish bags to be used.
Same same no?

siness thing?

correct... something occur in my mind...

singapore said that cars above 10 years are said to cause pollution

I want to compare the energy wasted to manufacture a new car WITH existing causing energy emmision and less energy efficient..

or this is just bu

That's what we'd call sustainable development.
If the car, in its lifetime, produce less emission than its manufacturing process, it is environmentally sustainable.
If an old car which emits high amount of polluting by-products, it's no point in keeping it neither.

But i believe age of car is not the only factor. The quality of car, and whether the owner maintains it in a good way, plays a role too