A very cool campaign is underway in the UK, asking its citizens to “leave it off” for 24 hours. The goal is to show that cutting home energy use can have an impact on climate change. “It will measure consumption during the 24 hours against a “business as usual” forecast, and report back what savings have been achieved.”
Dr. Matt Prescott, founder of E-Day, says, “We have 70% of the public saying they accept climate change and wanting to do something about it; but almost everybody feels powerless, and I wanted to find a way of making people feel powerful and that they could change something.”
We couldn’t agree more, Matt. Thanks for a great idea! E-Day is February 27th.

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#9 | Posted by Matt Prescott | February 6, 2008 2:13 am
Hello Jill, Thank you for your support! Warmest regards Matt http://www.e-day.org.uk
#133 | Posted by Em | March 23, 2008 6:41 pm
Wow, that sounds like a great idea! It’d be great if we could do something like that in America. How was the power-off for 24 hours enforced??