It is only when we feel connected to something, that something belongs to us that we take responsibility for it. The things we don’t take responsibility for we usually complain and blame.

Someone out there decided to meet a large number of energy consumers where they are at and open their minds to “you can be apart of change for one hour”. Why is this important? Because many people are not connected enough to care at all! Many people wont make a change and wont create new habits and most of those same people wouldn’t even think of doing it if it wasn’t a trendy 1 hr. with a romantic twist of being a do-gooder.

The people who are open to change and learning more but were not sure about how to have a door open for them and maybe if they feel good about doing this they will also give Earth Day a shot and so on.

We can not force change. But we can make it look cool and easy! We can also create a sort of follow up way to create real change for those who take this action at heart.

There is no vibe as powerful as common intention! Lets Be the Change and keep finding new ways to inspire others that they can do it to!

Howdy. Thanks for the comments from both sides of the coin. It was a year ago I wrote that – and I stand by what I said (and the spirit in which it was written).

I want to underscore this (from the article): I don’t think what the Earth needs from us is one hour. I think the Earth needs us to rethink our habitual patterns.

If Earth Hour prompted you to rethink your habitual patterns and make life changes that you've kept up since this time last year (for the Earth's benefit), email Waylon and write a post for EJ on it – doing so will benefit us all.