This is the problem with the environmental movement. Hypocritical douchebags.

#78- So in order to attempt to improve the world, you yourself must be the epitome of perfection? I can see you are going to be quite beneficial to humanity.

#48 and #78, it was an accident, don't be such asswipes. The OP's not a hypocrite, no one would knowingly leave their lights on for 2 weeks straight. And him trying to talk to his friends about conserving doesn't make him a self righteous douchebag. I dont' know about you guys, but I'd like to be able to enjoy the earth for many years to come.

YDI, hypocrite.

I wonder how "green" that round trip flight to Kenya was. But at least you got a photo-op with some poor people so you can make yourself look noble or something. Seriously, what can you do in 2 weeks that a bunch of Kenyans can't?

one of your retarded friends probably turned it on just to piss you off.

That's kinda hypocritical, don't you think? But seriously. That is considered wasting electricity, of course I would make SURE all lights are off before I leave even just to my summer job, hence a vacation.

I second #73. Ignorance is bliss, I suppose. I wish the people with that mentality would be the first to lose air. All of the people ranting about how his/her plane trip was so bad for the environment, when did he say he was an freaky environmentalist? Perhaps "going green" was the shortest way to describe what he meant- living without some of the luxuries just to help reduce a tiny bit of emission and experience a life less focused on power use. It's a total fail because he ended up not doing it himself, but really. Lighten up.

Stop saying how his plane trip was not saving the environment. A lot of trips to impoverished areas are made in an effort to educate people. Many of the problems that a group would cover by traveling to poverty help the environment because they are helping PEOPLE. Thousands die daily from polluted water, and by teaching people to clean their water properly, the environment will thank them as well as the thousands of lives that are saved. Even doing the smallest thing for the smallest amount of people could help to make the world a better place. Stop calling the OP an ass, because at least they're out there trying to help, while many of you deny the fact that we are even damaging our environment at all. The signs are undeniable and if you choose to ignore them, fine, but there is no need to insult those who are putting in an effort to make up for your shortcomings.

you didnt change the amount of power being produced at the power plant so you didnt hurt the enviroment alternitavely, if you did turn them all off then you would have only saved the amount of extra money on your electric bill. NOTE that electricity wasnt wasted, it would have disipated into the wires if left to sit sorry but, in the big picture your house is utterly insignificant