Let's All Turn Off Our Lights for an Hour!

The U of A's Colloquy blog has a new post promoting activities related to "Earth Hour."  I have a lot of sympathy for these sorts of things, and certainly hold nothing against the Office of Sustainability.  Nonetheless, there is something disturbing about this sort of thing, much like the earlier dodgeball post.  It just seems to be all about image and gestures, but with no real long-term meaning to the institution or society.  I wish they would invest more effort into thinking about how to sustain the University of Alberta in the face of inept leadership and an anti-intellectual and criminally negligent government.