On Saturday, March 29, from 8 to 9 in the evening local time, hundreds of thousands of lights around the world will go dark for Earth Hour. The one hour event is intended to send a powerful message around the world about how important it is to reduce global warming and how many people care enough to take action.
In 2007, Earth Hour moved 2.2 million people and 2,100 businesses in Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. This collective effort reduced the city’s energy consumption by 10.2 percent for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for an hour. This year Earth Hour is going global.
Across the United States, skylines, including those in Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco, will go dark for Earth Hour. Some of the Earth Hour flagship cities are – Bangkok, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montreal, Dublin, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, Odense, Manila, Suva, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Christchurch. They all will switch off for Earth Hour on Saturday March 29, at 8 pm local time. Let’s add Philadelphia to this list.
You can participate however in your very own way, by shutting it all down for just one hour. Give pause, give commentary, or give your neighbor a hug, however it all works out. Let it be 60 minutes of peace and harmony.
Let it simply be dark. Tell everyone you know to get dark too.
Sources:
- NBC10.com: Earth Hour goes global
- bestwellnessconsultant.com: Join Mother Earth for Earth Hour 2008
