I think this might generate some interesting threads!  :>)
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> ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT
> THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
> 21 JUNE 2001, THURS EVE, 7-10pm,
> WORLDWIDE, ALL TIME ZONES
>
> As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy policies and lack
> of emphaasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fules,
> there will be a voluntary rolling blackout on the first day
> of summer, 21 June at 7pm - 10pm in any time zone
> (this will roll it across the planet).
>
> It is a simple protest and a symbolic act.  Turn out your lights
> from 7pm - 10pm on Thursday, 21 June.  Unplug whatever you can unplug
> in your house.  Light a candle to the Sungoddess, kiss and tell or not,
> take a stroll in the dark (with your flashlight), invent ghost stories,
> anything that is not electronic - have fun in the dark.
>
> Forward this email as widely as possible, to your government
> representatives and environmental contacts.  Let them know we
> want global education, participation and funding in conservation,
> efficiency and alternative fuel efforts -- and an end to over-
> exploitation and misuse of the earth's resources.
>
> Anyone knows that the Cheney-Bush team is blowing smoke when they
> tell us that "... conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive
> to imlement those technologies..."  While on the other hand, technology
> to develop and deploy weapons to blow incoming ICBMs out of the sky
> are easy to obtain.
>
> Read the 1999 bolk "Natural Capitalism" be Hawken and Lovins to learn
> that conservation/high efficiency technologies already ARE on-the-shelf.
> If implemented, these revolutionary ideas would pay themselves off within
> five years, after which we'd by pumping far less greenhouse gas into the
> atmosphere and saving bucks to boot.  Figure this enhanced technology
> wouldn't be a moneymaker for the corporate/cronies of the current
> administration, all neatly bough and paid for ...
>
>

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