Turn off for Earth Hour 2008
On March 31st, 2007, people all across the city of Sydney, Australia turned off their lights, unplugged their appliances and did their best to lessen their draw of electricity for a single hour. This movement was called Earth Hour. People lit candles, had cookouts with their friends and managed to reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour. That is the equivalent of taking 48,000 cars off the road for one hour.This year they are turning Earth Hour into a global movement, asking cities all across the world to sign on to participate. Currently there are 17 cities signed up and more are still welcome. If your community isn't currently participating, they have tools and documents to help make your city an Earth Hour participant.
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2-23-2008 @ 1:24PM
Graham Cliff said...
Earth Hour will not just raise interests in a one hour World experiment. It should awaken interest in the unsustainable harms being done by the 24 hour day. You cab learn some of these "hidden" insidious problems at http://www.lightpollution.org.uk
Join Earth Hour March 29th 2008. You know it makes sense - at least I hope so. If not then we will be JTL -Just Too Late. Those ignoring the "canaries" are hoping for a JIT future - that the future's problems will be solved JIT, Just In Time. I wish I had their faith in human beings. Sadly I do not.
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2-24-2008 @ 2:25AM
Colin Henshaw said...
Most lighting is unnecessary and wasteful. Thousands of cities world-wide are cooking the atmosphere every night with wasted heat and light. Consequently it is having a detrimental effect on the environment. It is now well established that lighting has a serious ecological impact, as well as contributing to global warming and climate change. Earth Hour should be supported as it will help to draw attention to this fact, and maybe then something positive will be done about it. We need to act now before it is too late.
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2-24-2008 @ 12:41PM
Francis Parnell said...
With the waste of energy from light pollution in the U.S. estimated at between $6.5-billion to $10-billion dollars, and the amount of greenhouse gasses released at over 41-billions tons, one would think that would be enough to call attention to the problem. But the "status quo" and "business as usual" thought pattern is so pervasive that combating global warming in America may be next to impossible. If there's any chance that a business might lose a dollar profit, then forget global warming - it's a myth. And far too many businesses AND politicians think and act this way.
3-29-2008 @ 12:15PM
fran said...
can anyone tell me the earth hour time in New York? i live on long island.
thanks
-fran
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3-29-2008 @ 5:04PM
Miles said...
It is from 8pm-9pm, it doesn't matter where you are, the time is the same.