Earth Hour 2008 – Turn off The Lights March 29th 20:00-21:00
Last year (’07) I was visiting my hometown Sydney, and I found myself quite proudly part of a little experiment by the city of Sydney "Earth Hour".
The concept was simple: have the whole city turn off their lights for 1 single hour to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Well this year Earth Hour has gone GLOBAL!
View Video About Earth Hour here
Of course it may seem ‘small’ – turning off lights for one hour? – but I was there, it certainly didn’t feel small! Or look it!
The whole cityscape went dark and there were lots of festivals by candelight…And it certainly did a lot to raise consciousness for the ‘little things each of us can do to make a difference’ (small changes => big impacts after all).
Of course I would love to see cities do this all the time – turn off unnecessary lighting and signage. For instance, "If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney Central Business District during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year." And that’s just the centre of Sydney!
Of course this is just one of the many things linked to global warming / climate change: here are some others.
To find out more about Earth Hour, watch the Earth Hour promo clip, check out the Earth Hour website, look here to see what’s happening in your city, keep up to date with the blog…And most importantly – turn off your lights on Saturday night for one hour 20:00-21:00!
— Image: unplug for an hour source: earthhour.org —
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