Blackoutsabbath

In case you didn't already think we were a little...shall we say...touched, try this on for size.  On Saturday, June 20th, we will be participating in the second annual Blackoutsabbath.  Rufus Wainwright, a musician whose work we enjoy, is spearheading the event. Motivated by the way New York City pulled together as a community during the last blackout, and wanting to do his piece to reduce our collective carbon footprint, he encouraged his listeners to refrain from using electricity between the hours of noon and midnight on the summer solstice. He suggests we use that time to make some resolutions about how we can reduce our carbon footprint for the coming year.  The summer solstice is the perfect night for this kind of event because it is the night we have the most daylight hours.  In our younger years, Jamie and I had some fantastic summer solstice parties; this year, we'll use no electricity (except the fridge - I'm not going that far) and try to take back the environment a bit.

So give it a thought.  If your power went out from 12 to 12, you'd survive.  You'd make it work somehow.  Think about roughing it for 12 hours and seeing what we can give back to the grid.