Earth Hour

Earth Hour all started back in 2007 in Australia, when the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund) had a great idea of shutting all of the main light sources for 1 hour. All this was to bring awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

This got a lot of attention last year and more than 420 cities participated. These also included major buildings around the world such as: Empire State Building (New York City), Sears Tower (Chicago), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta), and Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia). But the list goes on.  And the week leading up to Earth Hour, the website: http://www.earthhour.org/ had over 6.7 million hits.

Including me, 50 million people participated in this event in 2008. And you can bet that i will be doing it again this year. I have signed up on earthhour.org and I'm trying to get the word out before March 28Th. I have emailed the mayor of my city asking him to please read about this event and to see if we (the city) can participate.

But please make sure to get involved in these event, get people, business, and your mayor to shut there lights off for only one hour. This hour can do so many things for everyone around the world.

So make sure you shut all of your lights out at 8:30pm (your local time) on March 28Th.