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It’ll be lights out at city cathedral
ONE OF Hampshire's iconic buildings will be plunged into darkness during Earth Hour.
Winchester Cathedral, pictured, has agreed to take part in Lights Out Hampshire. It will switch off its floodlights for an hour on March 29 and keep them off for the rest of the weekend.
A spokeswoman said: "The cathedral lights and floodlights will go off at 8pm.
"We felt it was important to support the Lights Out Hampshire initiative. It is encouragement for us all to think about our green impact."
Hampshire County Council is also switching off all non-essential lights and appliances.
The council will turn off lights for one hour at its Winchester headquarters as well as at the city crown court, the Discovery Centre, Great Hall, Serle's House and the Gladstone Street car park.
Council leader Ken Thornber said: "All of Hampshire has a responsibility to protect the planet for future generations and that is why we are giving our backing to Global Earth Hour.
"Helping to cut greenhouse gases and reducing the carbon footprint is one of the council's main priorities. We have been addressing the issue for about a decade and were among the first councils in the UK to commit to reducing climate change.
"In 2006 we set up the Climate Change Commission to improve our understanding of the likely impacts of a changing climate and to prioritise actions to prepare us for the changes ahead."
4:14pm Monday 24th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Creature Void of Form on 4:37pm Mon 24 Mar 08
shame most of the council aren't on life support machines.
shame most of the council aren't on life support machines.
Posted by: Creature Void of Form on 4:39pm Mon 24 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Creature Void of Form[/bold] wrote:
shame most of the council aren't on life support machines. [/quote] [quote]Hampshire County Council is also switching off all non-essential lights and appliances.[/quote]
meant to refer to the above quote. Mmm, it's the way I tell them ;-)
Creature Void of Form wrote:
shame most of the council aren't on life support machines.
Hampshire County Council is also switching off all non-essential lights and appliances.
meant to refer to the above quote. Mmm, it's the way I tell them ;-)
Posted by: Robert on 4:45pm Mon 24 Mar 08
The word >>gimmick<< springs to mind.
Anyway, if you look carefully enough in the bible, you'll see it tells you several times that switching off floodlights is a sin.
The word >>gimmick<< springs to mind.
Anyway, if you look carefully enough in the bible, you'll see it tells you several times that switching off floodlights is a sin.
Posted by: Sceptical, Hythe on 8:47pm Mon 24 Mar 08
Ken Thornber and Winchester Cathedral - two total wastes of space.
Ken Thornber and Winchester Cathedral - two total wastes of space.
Posted by: Unbeliever, Hythe on 10:22am Tue 25 Mar 08
I long for the day when the lights are turned off permanently at Winchester Cathedral and all places of religion.
I long for the day when the lights are turned off permanently at Winchester Cathedral and all places of religion.
Posted by: Rockeyes on 9:55pm Sat 29 Mar 08
Got to start somewhere. It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour without the drone of a poor quality program on the TV in the background.
However, if we really care and the government practices what it preaches, why are we and it hell bent on disrupting millions of lives by destroying houses and pastures, creating tonnes of polluting gases and producing unwanted noise pollution by expanding air traffic and airports? How is it the Spanish owned company BAA can dictate to us these demands?
Is it morally acceptable that every person is paying more and more tax in the name of the environment yet it’s still cheaper to fly from one end of the UK to the other for a “Good night out” than it is to drive or catch a train to see friends or family that are only a fraction of that distance away?
When we start to pay congestion charges to pop into our local town and paying per mile to get to work via “smart CCTV’s” and “chipped cars” will it be then that we ask who is really gaining from all this?
Got to start somewhere. It was also nice for friends and family just to sit, talk and read for an hour without the drone of a poor quality program on the TV in the background.
However, if we really care and the government practices what it preaches, why are we and it hell bent on disrupting millions of lives by destroying houses and pastures, creating tonnes of polluting gases and producing unwanted noise pollution by expanding air traffic and airports? How is it the Spanish owned company BAA can dictate to us these demands?
Is it morally acceptable that every person is paying more and more tax in the name of the environment yet it’s still cheaper to fly from one end of the UK to the other for a “Good night out” than it is to drive or catch a train to see friends or family that are only a fraction of that distance away?
When we start to pay congestion charges to pop into our local town and paying per mile to get to work via “smart CCTV’s” and “chipped cars” will it be then that we ask who is really gaining from all this?
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