The Earth's Hour

What will you be doing on March 29, 2008 at 8 pm?  I hope you will be sitting in the dark and participating in Earth Hour 2008.  Last year, the people of Sydney, Australia (2.2 million people) turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour.  As a result, there was a reduction of Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2%.  There were weddings by candlelight (a nice idea, even if it wasn’t Earth Hour) and even the Opera House turned off its famous lights, changing the Sydney’s Harbor beautiful skyline (but well worth it). As this idea catches the attention (and more importantly, participation) of more and more cities around the world, just imagine what Earth would like from space during that hour.

Here’s a summary straight from the web site, “World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour is catching on across America following the tremendous success of last year's event in Sydney, Australia. This global phenomenon will spread across six continents in 2008, including hundreds of communities like yours in the United States. Chicago will serve as the U.S. flagship city for Earth Hour in 2008, with Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco joining as leading partner cities. But everyone throughout the US and around the world is invited and encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour on March 29 at 8 p.m. local time--whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town.”

Check out this video and for more info about how to get involved and to spread the word about Earth Hour 2008, check out www.earthhour.org.

~Melissa 

Comments

[JB]

Now that is a cool idea! Go Aussies!!