I like the dark. I mean real dark, not the ambient glow of the city. When it’s dark I’ve seen bats, owls, and flying squirrels, meteor showers, the Northern Lights, and the constellations. I used to lead nighttime hikes in the river valley and the hardest thing was to convince people they didn’t need their [...]
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Earth Hour,
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Sometimes my job is a lot of fun. As part of the City of Edmonton’s Earth Hour celebration on March 27, the Office of Environment decided to have a contest with Edmonton elementary school children. We asked them to give us their top five ways to save power. The entries will be put in a [...]
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Last year at this time I was busy planning for Earth Hour. My friends and I had been talking about having a dessert potluck and Earth Hour seemed like a good opportunity. I emailed out the invites, cleaned the apartment, got out the board games – after all if you are going to turn out [...]
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power usage,
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