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Count Down to Earth Minute… 1 Hour

6 by LiveOAK Staff on May 20, 2009
Hold your breath for the sake of our planet!

Hold your breath for the sake of our planet!

We are watching the clock here at gUP headquarter in anticipation of Earth Minute.  The brainchild of eco-warrior Shea Gunther, Earth Minute represents an even easier way for people to do their part to feel good about thinking about starting to plan on doing their part to combat global warming  by devoting one minute to reducing their carbon emissions... by holding their breath.  You may be wondering if this will actually do anything positive at all... I'm not a scientist, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Earth Minute will commence at 4:17 pm EST and conclude at 4:18 pm EST.  Time to start getting ready, it starts in exactly 1 hour (that is if you are reading this at 3:17 pm EST)!  For more details check out Shea's post at MNN.

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  • http://ecosalon.com Mike@EcoSalon

    I only managed 57 seconds.

    I’m deeply ashamed of myself.

    Also, I think I released just as much CO2 when my breath exploded out of me as if I had kept breathing the whole time. Possibly this is just me – which makes me a double eco-failure.

    *sigh*

    • http://greenupgrader.com Matt Embrey

      Yeah Mike, I think you did it wrong. You weren’t supposed to let that carbon out after the minute, you were supposed to sequester it indefinitely. I actually held my breath for 2:37 so if you want to buy some carbon offsets let me know.

  • niiisss

    wow- i did 1 minute 30

    • http://greenupgrader.com Matt Embrey

      You should sell your your extra 30s as an offset!

  • http://ecosalon.com Mike@EcoSalon

    Thanks for your kind offer, Matt, but I’ve decided to do my bit by eating charcoal for 60 seconds. That should easily offset any carbon I released in my pathetic failure of an attempt at Earth Minute.

    I’m not looking forward to it, frankly.

    But my planet needs me.

    • http://greenupgrader.com Matt Embrey

      It was nice knowing you :(