I’m going to encourage this as much as I can, because I think that each electron saved is, well, an electron saved:
http://www.onehournopower.com/
Quite a simple, straight-forward idea (and presentation). Use no electricity on Sunday July 1st from noon till one. A worthy cause. Everyone turns off their own lights, homeowners and businesses alike.
To me, it is akin to the recent fascination with “user-driven content”. Aren’t most of our economic operations already user, or human driven? The coordination of our electrical (-and other resource) consumption is driven by distributions of supply, demand and transport.
One Hour No Power aims to knock at one of these three pillars of resource consumption – demand. Pragmatically, the ability to make your own choices is the greatest freedom you retain. Can we, through individual/group action send a message to the higher-ups through programs like this?
