{"id":905,"date":"2012-03-28T23:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2012-03-29T05:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T04:14:36","slug":"switch-off-i-will-if-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Switch Off: I Will If You Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a similar theme of last week&#8217;s Global Awareness Campaign, I came across the developing idea of a &#8220;Global Earth Hour&#8221;.\u00a0 Surely it is a good idea to spend one hour a year thinking about the Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Started in Australia in 2004, this BIG SWITCH OFF is now held annually on the last Saturday of March every year &#8211; so you have two days to prepare yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Worth taking time out to think about how dependent we are on electricity &#8211; and it does not take much effort to join in.\u00a0 Just switch off all your electrical appliances from 20.30 to 21.30 this Saturday &#8211; and think about the Earth &#8211; or whatever else comes to mind!<\/p>\n<p>The video below is so cute, I had to reproduce it.\u00a0 Might also convince you to vote for some of the pledges on the site:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9P91D-2YYs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a similar theme of last week&#8217;s Global Awareness Campaign, I came across the developing idea of a &#8220;Global Earth Hour&#8221;.\u00a0 Surely it is a good idea to spend one hour a year thinking about the Earth? Started in Australia in 2004, this BIG SWITCH OFF is now held annually on the last Saturday of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Switch Off: I Will If You Will&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42,41,71,67,40,79,36,85,65,60,57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-eB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":899,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=899","url_meta":{"origin":905,"position":0},"title":"World Water Day and The Big Thirst","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"22\/03\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I have subscribed for several years now to a great site called ChangeThis - where anyone can publish a manifesto to change something that they think is important.\u00a0 So it was today that I was browsing the site and found out that it is World Water Day.\u00a0 Designated by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Ideas","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=42"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/33_04_3-Water-Texture_web.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":252,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=252","url_meta":{"origin":905,"position":1},"title":"Digital Scotland Rocks!","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"05\/11\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I was away in Edinburgh last week at the launch of the Digital Scotland report. \u00a0A fine piece of work which creates a new way of looking at Next Generation Access in the UK by suggesting that Scotland creates a Digtial Scotland Trust with a number of internet hubs which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Ideas&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Ideas","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=42"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":603,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=603","url_meta":{"origin":905,"position":2},"title":"Jobs, Dots and Coincidences","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"31\/08\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In the week that Steve Jobs gave up as CEO of Apple, I was reminded by a good friend, Cliff, of part of Jobs' address to Stamford students in 2005: \"You can't connect the dots looking forward. 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