I had to Share It

So yesterday was earth hour and that means that between 8.30 PM and 9.30 PM you should have your lights of for an hour and lots of cities in the world participate in this.

I heard that in 2009 our city (Calgary) used 1% less power compared to normal and that while Toronto saved 15% so people where disappointed about that and they should. But now today the number from yesterday came out and guess what we used 0.5% less power then normal and now you hear all those people being happy about how much they saved. I am really disappointed.

But I think that our problem lies by the organization here in Calgary.
First of all they did not realy do anything to get attention to the earth hour 2010 till last moment.  And then there was an event downtown at Olympic Plaza and finding information about that was also almost impossible. But I went there last night because I left my light off and unplugged all the other electronics in my home. The happening down town was not even worth mentioning and that is all I am gone say about this.

At least some big buildings downtown joined in last night the Bow Building was without lights for an hour and the Calgary tower to. And some other buildings had less lights on. But after the hour things went back on and that I don’t get. Why does an office tower downtown have so much lights on on a saterday nights.

Come on people start turning the light off if it is not used. When you leave your office flick the switch. if you leave the washroom turn of the lights.

Make a change for the better not just an hour a year.

New Category is made Free Calgary. And this is the first post for it here you can read about things you can do and get for free in Calgary.

On Sunday November 8, 2009 these are the things I found.

- Free Breakfast at IKEA the last day of there 5 year celebration gives you free eggs, sausage and country fries and a coffee normally this would have costed you 2 dollars and now it is free. (breakfast at IKEA is till 11am)

- Free Movie at the Plaza Theather in Kensington. At there will be shown animated shorts by the NFB at 1PM and this will take 46 min. Check this LINK for more info.

Today on my way home I took the back alley to my place and then you see thing you really don’t want to see. Why do people have the urge to dump there old furniture just somewhere in an alley way?

If you go to the trouble of loading it in you car then the effort of driving a little bit further to the land fill can’t be that much more.

And yes maybe you have to pay 10 bucks to dump your gabage (under 250kg) but now you risk getting a huge fine for dumping your crap where it doesn’t belong.

I would be so a shamed to just dump your trash in some once back yard, OK most times it is a company where they dump it but still that doesn’t change a thing does it. This filth just does not belong there and the longer it stays there the worse it gets with animals going through it and then the rain or like today the snow makes it wet and then the sun will warm it up so that it starts to rot and smell.

Come on people we all live in this city, why do we have to make a mess out of it. STOP it!!!!

And you know if your furniture is still good and sometimes it looks still great you can bring it to a place like Value Village they will be happy with it and some of them even come pick it up at you home so you don’t have to worry about it at all.

And finally if you really can’t afford the 10 dollars for the landfill why can’t you take the effort to dump it in a garbage bin because in 9 out of 10 cases I seen there is a garbage bin big enough to hold the stuff they dump within 10 meters. Come on people lets make this city a bit cleaner PLEASE!