Energy Saving Day starts, er, tonight : Tech Digest

This evening, from 6.00pm, sees the start of Energy Saving Day - a 24-hour environmental campaign to raise awareness of the importance of not just leaving everything switched on when you can't take it any more and collapse in bed.

The campaign's web site will monitor the energy savings made by encouraging everyone to go the extra mile and bend down to turn stuff off at the plug tonight, thanks to near-live country-wide power consumption data that'll be coming in from the National Grid.

Which is very nice of the National Grid, seeing as it'll be out of business if we all give up electric.

If you're in London at 6.00pm, you might want to avoid St Paul's Cathedral - Energy Day is being launched there by the Bishop of London, who will preside over a bicycle-powered cinema showing films relevant to climate change. That will really get people motivated to make a difference. I'd definitely rather sit at home in silence in the dark than attend a screening of some climate change movies in a bicycle-powered cinema.

So what are you all doing for national Energy Saving Day? I'm doing my bit by just having cold bread for dinner tonight instead of my usual toast. If we pull together, we can DO THIS.

(Via Energy Saving Day)