[Nettime-bold] announcement

[molly hankwitz <mollybh@netspace.net.au>]

ROLL YOUR OWN BLACKOUT THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
   JUNE 21, 2001 THURS EVE,
   7-10pm worldwide, all time zones

   As an alternative to George W. Bush's energy policies and lack of
emphasis on efficiency, conservation and alternative fuels, there will be a
voluntary
rolling blackout on the first day of summer, June 21 at 7pm - 10pm  in all
time zones (this will roll it across the planet). It's a simple protest and
a symbolic act. Turn out your lights from 7pm-10pm on June 21. Unplug
whatever you can unplug in your house. Light a candle, kiss and tell (or
not), take a stroll in the dark, invent ghost stories, anything that's not
electronic - have fun in the dark.

The Cheney-Bush team is blowing smoke when they tell us that "...
conservation can't help, it'll just be too expensive to implement those
technologies..." Pick up the 1999 book "Natural Capitalism" by 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 be pumping far less greenhouse gas
into the atmosphere and saving bucks to boot.

   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.

mollyhankwitz
0348 050759
61 7 3846 5457
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