The lights turned off.

Tom turned the lights off.

So, if I could have the lights down up here.

Jewish Lights Pub., January 2004.

You should turn off the light before going to sleep.

Turning off the lights is just a call to action, they noted.

Yet, by switching off the lights, all we are doing is making it harder to see.

It's like the lights are on, but nobody's home on this demographic Y2K 10 problem. Right?

There was a time when Stone Age men and women used to sit and look up at the sky and say, What are those twinkling lights?

The main thing that anyone accomplished by turning off the lights at nighttime for an hour was to make it harder to see.

So if you ever, ever get an opportunity to take a dive in a submersible, say yes a thousand times, yes and please turn out the lights.

If switching off the lights for one hour per year really were beneficial, why would we not do it for the other 8,759?

Although the lights are always on, the angle of the lens from the pilot's point of view determines the color and position of the visible light.

This is a series of lamps I made. This is a Bento box lamp it's sort of a plastic rice lamp it's very friendly.

Switching off our lights and promising to cut carbon emissions may make us feel momentarily virtuous, but that s all it does.

Apparently doing something virtuous like turning off the lights makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.

On the same evening, another billion will participate in the environmental event Earth Hour by turning off their lights from 8 30 9 30.

Earth Hour teaches us that tackling global warming is easy. Yet, by switching off the lights, all we are doing is making it harder to see.

And for us, I mean it's really kind of a very strange thing, but the moments in the hall that the buzz kind of dies down when the audience is waiting for the performance to begin, very similar to the parting of curtains or the raising of a chandelier, the walls will just exude this glow, temporarily stealing attention from the stage.

At the stroke of 8 30 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, nearly a billion people in more than 120 countries demonstrated their desire to do something about global warming by switching off their lights for an hour.

Here's another one completely different one Why is it that we don't do the blindingly obvious things we should do to combat climate change, very, very simple things like buying energy efficient appliances, putting in efficient lights, turning the lights off occasionally, insulating our homes?