Chain for Energy Consumption Awareness

Mi illumino di meno poster I received the 5 things chain from bonaria. I guess “un gioco e’ bello quando dura poco” (a game is fun if it does not last forever), so I think I better pass a different chain.

Mucio started a chain to spread the “M’illumino di meno” campaign of Caterpillar. The “M’illumino di meno” campaign declared February 26th 2007 as “Energy saving day” (giornata del risparmio energetico). The goal is twofold: become more aware of how much energy we daily use and start with simple (and less simple) acts to reduce our energy consumption. Some simple ideas are in the text of the song/jingle of the campaign. You can download or listen the song from caterueb and read the text (in Italian) at the end of this post.

Mucio didn’t pass the chain to me, but this is a different chain, it is a chain you can pass without waiting for someone to pass it to you or, if you prefer, consider that this post is passing the chain to Everybody. So, don’t wait! Pass it to your friends, now! And there is no limit on the number of friends you pass it to as well. 5? Fine. 9? Good. 15? Better. 100? Perfect!

For people who does not understand Italian, I’d like to mention as well the Climate Change Game made by the BBC that I found yesterday via the glorious WorldChanging. The Climate Change is a Flash game where you are president of the European Nations and you must tackle climate change and stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office.

Ah yes, the last and most important part. I pass this chain to:

  • bonaria (because she passed me the 5 things one I didn’t pass)
  • marcella (she is not blogging but flickring so the challenge is to pass the chain via an artistic photo about energy consumption)
  • marina (because of interesting discussions on her blog)
  • marco (who does not appreciate pointless blogo-chains, let’s see if he appreciates this one)
  • francesca e marco (because they are in US and there is a lot to do there as well about energy consumption)
  • bru (because it is the first one in my blogroll ;-)
  • pandemia (because he cares abour the environment)
  • ingegneria senza frontiere – trento (because it is an association that cares about the environment as well, and i want to check if the blog masters check incoming links ;-)
  • napo (because he says I never link to him ;-)


Text of the song/jingle of the M’illumino di meno campaign from the caterueb site.

L’energia che cos’è?
È una specie di magia che fa vivere anche te
l’energia ma dove sta?
Ce n’è tanta sotto terra ce n’è tanta su nel cielo
l’energia l’energia ma di energia quanta ce n’è?
Ce n’è tanta te l’ho detto, per adesso uno sfacelo!
l’energia se po’ spreca’?
A regazzi’ “ma vedi un po’ d’annattene”

Il 16 febbraio, te lo dico e non mi sbaglio,
è la festa nazionale del risparmio energetico,
e sì perché miei cari ascoltatori abbiamo un guaio:
crescono i consumi con un ritmo frenetico.

Quindi Caterpillar ha voluto organizzare
una festa nazionale, ed ha invitato pure te,
ha invitato tutti per quel giorno a risparmiare
e lo slogan della festa sai qual è?:

m’illumino di meno
e con la mia morosa a lume di candela ceno.
m’illumino d’immenso
m’illumino di meno
risparmiare ci conviene e poi sprecare non ha senso.
m’illumino d’immenso.

L’elettrodomestico non lasciarlo in stand-by
mia nonna me l’ha insegnato, lei non ce lo lascia mai
e poi la lavatrice va sempre a pieno carico
se la vedo mezza vuota c’ho una crisi di panico

mettici un coperchio su quel pentolone al fuoco
che l’acqua bolle prima ed il risparmio non è poco
chiudi il rubinetto mentre spazzoli i tuoi denti
i posteri ringraziano, e salutano contenti!

regola il termostato e non esagerare
che 19 gradi ti dovrebbero bastare
se hai freddo dentro casa anche un golfino ci può stare
è inutile creare un micro-clima tropicale!

d’estate invece c’è chi dice ch’arifiata
solo quando i condizionatori stanno accesi
ma che succederà quando l’aria condizionata
la vorranno giustamente anche un miliardo di cinesi?

m’illumino di meno
lascio l’auto a casa vado in bici oppure in treno!
m’illumino d’immenso
m’illumino di meno
fino a ieri non ci pensavo oggi eccome se ci penso!
m’illumino d’immenso

chi costruisce casa tenga a mente il doppio vetro
che l’investimento con gli interessi torna indietro
un’altra fondamentale raccomandazione
è di non lesinare sulla coibentazione

ricordati di usare lampadine fluorescenti
che durano più a lungo e sono molto convenienti
e un’ultima cosetta poi da non dimenticare
quella più ecologica è l’energia solare!

noi non siamo mica come quegli americani
che del protocollo se ne lavano le mani
e non approviamo quei simpatici australiani
che su Kyoto hanno risposto: “ci pensiamo da domani!”

noi siamo diversi SÌ! Noi siamo italiani SÌ!
da sempre di risparmio siamo portatori sani SÌ!
e pur di non tradire il protocollo di Kyoto
Quest’anno in Sardegna ci andiamo tutti a nuoto!

m’illumino di meno
te lo dice Caterpillar lo ripetono i Radici
m’illumino d’immenso
sprecare non è furbo, sei d’accordo che ne dici?
m’illumino di meno
te lo cantano i Radici, ribadisce Caterpillar
m’illumino d’immenso
chi spreca a Roma è un tordo, a Milano invece è un pirla!

Al pieno di benzina non ci voglio più pensare
la mia biciclettina va a trazione muscolare
agli aumenti del petrolio finalmente ho detto basta
faccio trenta e più kilometri con un piatto di pasta!

tutto questo spreco produce effetto serra
gravissimo problema per il pianeta terra
il consumo intelligente invece produce aria pulita
migliora la qualità della nostra vita!

Ebbene sì! ho un Kyoto fisso
nella testa, ed è la festa
la festa nazionale del risparmio energetico!

ho capito ho capito ma l’energia se po’ spreca’?
NO!

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  1. » Nicholas Negroponte in Udine and we will switch the light off – Paolo blog: Ramblings on Trust, Reputation, Recommender Systems, Social Software, Free Software, ICT4D and much more's Gravatar
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    [...] Nicholas Negroponte in Udine and we will switch the light off Filed under ICT4D, barcamp, actioncampudine by paolo Nicholas Negroponte will be in Udine, Italy on February 16, 2007, next next Friday, during InnovactionFair. See the complete program. He will speak from 18.30 to 19.30 (and we will switch the light off … see below). By the way just after thre will be Derrick de Kerckhove. Yes yes that Nicholas Negroponte! The founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. Nicholas is also the creator of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit organization, whose goal is “to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves”. I’m fascinated by the challenges he and his group and everyone contributing is taking into making the One Laptop Per Child vision a reality. The hardware, software, interface and design (yes, they chose GNU/Linux) is a challenge in itself but what is much much more interesting are the social issues that will emerge when this product will make into the hand of a lot of children around the world. Issues like “will it be stolen and end on ebay?”, “is this a top-down approach, imposing to every children in the world the same mental metaphors and processes?”, “how teachers are integrated into this mass deployment and how eah one of them in every different school of the world will react?”, “wouldn’t poor countries spend better their money providing basic facilities to people such as water than shiny laptops to children?” and much more. Ethan as usual is the best one in describing what we are really speaking about. Why will we switch the light off while he is speaking? Nicholas will speak from 17.30 to 18.30 but, what a coincidence, that day February 16, 2007 in Italy is the “M’illumino di meno Energy saving day” and the collective visible act, besides the awareness spreading, is to switch off all the non really really necessary lights and electric tools at 18.00. I sent an email to Caterpillar, the “M’illumino di meno” campaign organizer, which have a daily radio program on our public radio, but I got no reply so far. My proposal was to switch off all the lights but the microphone of Negroponte for at least few minutes at 18.00 and to broadcast what he says during that period on the radio as well. I think it would be a great message. Let me also note that there is an ActionCamp that will develop bottom-up during the Innovaction Fair. This is just one of the many BarCamps that are blooming in Italy in the past year. [...]

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