Tales of the Talking Tiger

After dinner I returned to the room and looked out the window again (I’m not sure what I was expecting to find the second time!) Again, I looked straight into the office building that was beautifully illuminated for the people who were working there. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, no one was working there at 10pm.

This triggered a very obvious question – why was each floor of this and every other office building in the city lit up all night, every night? The power required for this pointless exercise would be massive, and seems to me to be a very easy way of reducing power consumption and green house gas emissions.

Earlier this year the Sydney Morning Herald and the World Wildlife Fund (I think) teamed up to promote Earth Hour – inviting Sydney-siders to turn off their lights for one hour on 31 March and see how easy it is to take action on global warming.

It’s a good idea, but whilst turning off the lights in your suburban home may not be practicable, turning off the lights in an office building for 12 hours a day, each day of the week is. Let’s pick the low hanging fruit.

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I visited the World Wildlife Fund website but couldn’t find a single reference to the full name of the organisation – each reference was simply written as WWF. This isn’t particularly helpful for the uninitiated, and isn’t best practice for web writing, or any other writing for that matter. WWF may not actually stand for World Wildlife Fund, but I have a recollection from a Year 6 assignment that leads me to believe this is what the acronym represents!)