The Earth Hour project, promoted by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) , encourages people around the world to turn their lights off for one hour from 8-9pm in their local time zone today, Mar. 29. Even Google (www.google.com) “turned their lights out” for the cause. They simulated the lights being turned out today on their search engine to promote the Earth Hour energy conservation project; the Google home page’s background is pitch black!
Major cities around the world will be holding events to spread and raise awareness about energy consumption and climate change, and you can get in on this too. In fact, as I announced yesterday, National Dark Sky Week starts today and lasts until April 4th–so if you participate in National Dark Sky Week to minimize light pollution, you are also participating in energy conservation for Earth Hour. You accomplish TWO for the effort of ONE. So flick that switch, people (or, if you have one of those clappers, you can just clap your lights off)!
Here is an Earth Hour YouTube promotional vidya:
Lantern photocredit: Scene’s
Clapper photocredit: Bob Gamble
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