Earth Hour

Rowena & Katie from TBS - The Glen store switching off the lights.

Lately, I've been feeling the heat of those traditional incandescent light bulbs. It just seems so weird and alien to me that, in this age of technology, something made to create light also uses energy that gives off unnecessary heat.

It's silly but those hot bulbs symbolise global warming for me. Once I realised the heat from light bulbs were unnecessary I started noticing all the lights around me that serve little or no purpose.

So I've become much more vigilant about leaving the lights in my apartment switched off and of course replacing blown incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Now all I have to do is convince my dad to do the same!

Last week I signed The Body Shop up to Earth Hour. One of the points of this campaign is to show businesses how unnecessary it is to keep their lights on after hours. I was really happy to discover we have a policy of never keeping any of our store's lights on after we close. So Earth Hour at The Body Shop has been so easy to organise because I really didn't have to do a thing - We participate in Earth Hour every day!

Now we are asking for a personal commitment from our staff to participate in Earth Hour on Saturday night at home. Let's all get out the candles and see the difference we can make! Here are some handy tips for how to fill your hour from Hamish & Andy.


Adam Valvasori - Wondering how he's going to play Singstar in the dark.