Fifteen Fool-Proof Earth Hour Activities

1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours. The ones you like, anyway.

2. Gather family and friends for a night picnic in your local park. Look at the stars, dodge the dog poop.

3. Take the kids trick or treating. It's worth a shot.


4. Get drunk alone in the dark, like every other Saturday.

5. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight.

6. Sit in the dark and share stories. Preferably not alone. Pets don't count.


7. Share a romantic night in with your loved one. Sexy time. Pets still don't count.

8. Roam the neighbourhood pretending to be a zombie.

9. Go for a long drive with the headlights off. Preferably in a SUV/4WD. Call everyone you know and be smug about your "contribution".


10. Organise a family night playing board games. Bring on the Jenga!

11. Dig out hand-cranked flashlight and make shadow puppets like in the old days. Quickly realise that the old days weren't much fun.

12. Congratulate yourself on your dogged perseverance for going an hour without playing Wii.


13. Trip over the cat. Curse. A lot. And make it loud while you're at it.

14. Huddle in the basement with a shotgun and a case of canned ravioli and pretend it's the apocalypse.

15. Worry that the aliens won't be able to find your house in the dark.


And if all else fails, you can always proclaim self-righteously at the top of your little lungs that turning off all the lights for an hour doesn't really accomplish anything and is just a red herring so corporations and governments can distract people from the real issues.

I kid, I kid! The environment is a VERY SERIOUS MATTER PEOPLE!! So at 8.30pm next Saturday, turn your lights off because you care. Or because all the cool kids are doing it. Or because you forgot to pay your electricity bill. But mainly because you care.

You've got a week to get planning, so get to it! And while I'm throwing demands around, have a great weekend too!