Earth Hour under the dimmed lights of Embaracadero One SF CA USA
3/28/09
7:00pm
I'm with the Skyline Environmental Club, wandering through the Westfield Mall, slowly wending upstairs to the street for Earth Hour. We are a bit ahead of the wave; the usual drones of SF mobs are not yet aboard the Earth Hour /Lights Out idea. We go to Union Square for eats, and are too large a group for the Thai Place we find near Foley's Irish Eats. (Foley's has a new sign, by the way, HUGE NEON, barely recognized the place.)
7:30pm
Still waiting on our curries and Goong Gra Books, all the workers in the Thai Place look swamped. We crack jokes, but our leader Madeline is concerned about us making the 8:30pm lights-out landmark time for the Bay Bridge and the Pier 1 Clock Tower. We race-literally race-through the streets to a bus with our food, and land snorting and laughing with our victory. We make it in time, and eat after most of an hour was added to our apetites which the run helped. The lights clicked off a few seconds later to our yells of elation. We felt like the world was with us in this declaration for climate change, like we were a billion strong in this reach for a new accord to replace Kyoto, which expires in 2012.
8:50pm
The guys wait on me to finish eating and we check out the Durant Cafe, where a local environmental group is hosting a band which is powered by bikes anyone can ride to generate light and juice for the Amps.
10ispm
We split, nearly total in victory. it worked out much better than I could have expected.
7:00pm
I'm with the Skyline Environmental Club, wandering through the Westfield Mall, slowly wending upstairs to the street for Earth Hour. We are a bit ahead of the wave; the usual drones of SF mobs are not yet aboard the Earth Hour /Lights Out idea. We go to Union Square for eats, and are too large a group for the Thai Place we find near Foley's Irish Eats. (Foley's has a new sign, by the way, HUGE NEON, barely recognized the place.)
7:30pm
Still waiting on our curries and Goong Gra Books, all the workers in the Thai Place look swamped. We crack jokes, but our leader Madeline is concerned about us making the 8:30pm lights-out landmark time for the Bay Bridge and the Pier 1 Clock Tower. We race-literally race-through the streets to a bus with our food, and land snorting and laughing with our victory. We make it in time, and eat after most of an hour was added to our apetites which the run helped. The lights clicked off a few seconds later to our yells of elation. We felt like the world was with us in this declaration for climate change, like we were a billion strong in this reach for a new accord to replace Kyoto, which expires in 2012.
8:50pm
The guys wait on me to finish eating and we check out the Durant Cafe, where a local environmental group is hosting a band which is powered by bikes anyone can ride to generate light and juice for the Amps.
10ispm
We split, nearly total in victory. it worked out much better than I could have expected.