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The Google Zeitgeist 2012 video is up. I watched it at lunch and was definitely feeling teary-eyed by the end.

Then again, part of that might have been exhaustion from dealing with this:

(That’s the *inside* of the store’s front door this morning. I only got a chance to see that after I’d used my car windshield scraper to chip away enough ice *outside* the door so I could wrench it open. Good times. Won’t miss them.)

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In 2007, WWF-Australia inspired Sydney-siders to show their support for climate change action in the first ever Earth Hour event. It showed that everyone, from children to CEOs and politicians, has the power to change the world they live in. In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million individuals and more than 2,000 businesses turned their lights out for one hour to take a stand against climate change.

In 2008, the plan was to take Earth Hour to the rest of Australia. But then the City of Toronto, Canada, signed up and it wasn’t long before 35 countries and almost 400 cities and towns were part of the event. It said something compelling to the world: that the climate challenges facing our planet are so significant that change needs to be global.

With the invitation to ‘switch off’ extended to everyone, Earth Hour quickly became an annual global event. It’s scheduled on the last Saturday of every March – closely coinciding with the equinox to ensure most cities are in darkness as it rolled out around the Earth.

In 2011, Earth Hour saw hundreds of millions of people across 135 countries switch off for an hour. But it also marked the start of something new – going Beyond the Hour to commit to lasting action on climate change. And with the power of social networks behind the Earth Hour message, we hope to attract even more participation so we can build a truly global community committed to creating a more sustainable planet.

(From the Earth Hour website.)

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Sometimes my job means I get to stay up till one in the morning talking to starandrea about *science* and figuring out when you should panic now and when you should wait until later to panic.

That was last night, and then today I got to spend nearly three hours of my work day on my laptop typing this customer handout:

Responding to the Japan Nuclear Crisis

Key Point: People of New Hampshire, please stop panicking and yelling at us for not stocking potassium iodide. Also, I’m not a doctor, but I do know how to use wikipedia.

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