subscribeWho's done the Green Thing?
09.31pm elizabethmsutcliffe did it laughing in the London monsoon
07.50pm HannahPianna did it with no lugging up stairs!
07.03pm Tanja did it for the whole flat
Do November’s Green Thing. Switch your lights off early and ...
Leaving a light on when you don't need it on is as pointless as a papal penis. It also costs you money and wastes electricity and since most of our electricity is still produced by power stations belching out CO2, using less of it is a good thing.
So if you're not in the room, turn the lights off. Or if you are in the room, turn your lights off early and have some fun the dark. You could listen to the strange and wonderful sounds of the dark or go to your window and gaze at the stars or get jiggy or you can do it in the dark in a Justin-Hawkins-kind-of-way or think terribly dark thoughts or have a lovely nourishing sleep.
And when you've turned your lights off early or turned off lights you're not using, please come back and tell us by clicking DONE IT so we can tell you what it all adds up to later.
Switch my lights off early and do what exactly?
For an invaluable guide to nocturnal listening, turn off your lights, put on some headphones and play The Dark Room, the world's very first binaural interactive game. Listen out for Wu the ghost and bladder man.
If you turn your lights off and look at it, the night sky is basically one giant-dot-to-dot. You can you join those dots into things like water-carriers and lions like the ancients did or you can join them up to make other shapes like Green Thing did ...
Turn your lights off, turn your hang-ups off, have a laugh, loosen up, shake it around a bit – whatever it is. It’s dark, you can do what you want, no one can see. Unless you video yourself like this guy did.
Cock-rocker Justin Hawkins wants to do something in the dark but critics are divided about what exactly. “Find a spiritual light” said one. “Eat chicken with chilli” said another. Listen to the full-length version and decide.
Turn your lights off and recharge your biological batteries with a good long sleep –this video is almost guaranteed to make you fall asleep instantly. And if you upload a picture of your sheep, we can make the video longer to make more people sleepier.
Download this podcast in which comedian Simon Munnery and others give you some dark things to think about in the dark. Strap on your headphones and take a long deep swim in lake you.
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