Earth Hour: Cities, Landmarks to Go Dark

[Thomas]

Earth Hour: Cities, Landmarks to Go Dark

Cities around the world will briefly go dim Saturday evening as the lights of buildings and landmarks are shut off for one hour to raise awareness about climate change.

Called Earth Hour, the event is organized by the conservation nonprofit WWF to encourage people to conserve electricity and reduce the greenhouse emissions that cause global warming.

Earth Hour started last year with one city, Sydney, Australia. The response was so strong that WWF decided to take the event global for 2008, said WWF spokesperson Leslie Aun.

"We were trying to get a few people to participate, but we ended up getting 2 million people and some 2,500 businesses," Aun said.

This year, Earth Hour will include 35 official partner cities, as well as dozens of smaller cities spread out across six continents.

Partner cities in the United States include Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco.

"We have a city in every major U.S. time zone participating," Aun said.

The event will take place from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. local time in each time zone.

(National Geographic Channel is the U.S. media partner for Earth Hour. National Geographic Channel and National Geographic News are both owned by the National Geographic Society.)



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[Shasturbator]

I shall go buy some used tires and do a solid burnout during this time....Global warming is true, but they are skewing the facts....the world is comming out of a "mini ice age" the facts are out there, you just have to dig...there are experts that have studies weather patterns for YEARS that are "blacklisted" when they speak out against the mighty Al Gore global warning.....the technology to double gas mileage on ANY car, truck, semi, IS out there....if these "politicians" are really worried about it, why don't they spend some of my tax dollars on providing it to the masses. Sorry to vent and we can start a thread on this by itself...fuckin TRUE, I have a connection and can make it work.......just wondering why I am doing it and not the damn government...