Morning Challenge

[pie-eater 207]

Interesting

 

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The Japanese government has launched a campaign encouraging people to go to bed and get up extra early in order to reduce household carbon dioxide emissions.

 

The Morning Challenge campaign, unveiled by the Environment Ministry, is based on the premise that swapping late night electricity for an extra hour of morning sunlight could significantly cut the nation's carbon footprint.

 

A typical family can reduce its carbon dioxide footprint by 85kg a year if everyone goes to bed and gets up one hour earlier, according to the campaign.

 

The amount of carbon dioxide emissions potentially saved from going to bed an hour early was the equivalent of 20 per cent of annual emissions from household lights, "Many Japanese people waste electric power at night time, for example by watching TV until very late," a ministry spokesperson told The Daily Telegraph.

 

"But going to bed early and getting up early can avoid wasting electrical power which causes carbon dioxide emissions. If people change their lifestyle, we can save energy and reduce emissions." The campaign also proposes that people take advantage of an extra hour of morning sunlight by improve their lifestyles in general by running, doing yoga and eating a nutritious breakfast.

 

It is the latest initiative tackling climate change by the Japanese environment ministry, which is faced with the challenge of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 25 per cent from 1990 levels within the next decade.

 

It was the same government department that launched the high profile Cool Biz campaign five years ago, which encourages workers to wear short-sleeved shirts and offices not to turn air con lower than 28 degrees during the summer.

[SpaceAgeMonkey 0]

I wonder if they will advise the billions of vending machine operators to turn off their blindingly bright machines all through the night.

And turn off the meaningless road lights on the roads that no-one uses at night.

[kkk 7]

What an amazing "initiative".

Wonder how many people and how much it cost them to come up with this incredible idea.

[7-11 2]

The idea makes sense but you can imagine them all sat round a table for weeks coming up with it and making posters and expensive pamphlets....

[NoFakie 45]

Sounds like an attempt to get daylight savings in without the politicians having to upset someone who doesn't like it.

 

With daylight savings, you'd be rewarded with more trains running and places opening earlier measured relative to the sunrise.

[SKI 15]

I like night time when it's dark.

And I'm crap at mornings.

[thursday 1]

You know right, that power companies have to anticipate surge periods. In England it used to be Coronation Street breaks. The kettles would go on and there needed to be power there to avoid brown outs.

 

Simple solution for the CO2 target would be to just kill the TV programs.

[grungy-gonads 54]

And a good one too.

[RobBright 35]

There was a bonkers graphic on tv last night about what consumption during the Japan vs Denmark game.

 

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Toilet stand?

　The　Bureau of Waterworks in Tokyo, according to the usage of water in 23 wards in Tokyo just before kick-off at 3:30 am 5,000 70,000 hourcubic meterswas, began to decrease after the game, after 43 minutes was about 14 %, down about 64,000cubic meters. However, during the half-time brea and turned into minutes, hours of 22:04 am the same day 10 average 1.58 times more than the 14,000cubic metersof water were used. Follows the same trend begins early and late, fifteen minutes later the game ended about 70 012 thousandcubic metersjumped again. Waterworks officials are "in many games in the toilet and put up with people who" have said.

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