Having a romantic candle-lit dinner, or just chatting with friends around the kitchen table takes us back to the pre-electricity days of social entertainment just for one hour at least. Hopefully more people will be inspired to do this more than just once a year and change their energy consumption habits just a little.
Of course no-one is expected to sit at home in the dark – while ordinary paraffin wax candles may well be just as damaging to the environment as electricity use, we like the idea of using solar lanterns for illumination during Earth Hour, and for the rest of the year. Totally clean, totally free energy and much safer for use in the home than candles and kerosene lamps, they bring an element of the future to that traditional pastime of talking for hours with friends and family with television and radio switched off!
