Blackout campaign gains momentum (starts in 35 minutes)

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http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/montreal/story.html?id=82707ab7-580e-4302-91cc-d5415757898f

For five minutes beginning at 7:55 local time, people around the world will switch off lights, radios, computers, DVD players and other electrical gadgets that are usually left on standby.

Dubbed "Five Minutes of Respite for the Planet," the initiative was launched in France several weeks ago by the Alliance pour la planete, an umbrella organization of environmental and advocacy groups, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.

The event is intended to coincide with this week's meeting in Paris of experts from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which ends today. Tomorrow, the panel is to make public its assessment of the Earth's climate since 2001.

Originally purely a French initiative, word of the lights-out campaign spread quickly to other parts of the world by email and on the Internet.

I searched but didn't find it leaking into DU ;)
so here it is.

I don't have the option of turning my computer off ... highly time-sensitive work ... but I'll hit the light switches. Of course the bulbs are all compact fluorescents anyhow.