On March 27, it’s lights out for Earth Hour 2010
Mar 26, 2010 12:01 AM
Turn out the lights at 8:30 on Saturday night.
Rather, as part of the Earth Hour campaign and its worldwide call for action on climate change, 1 billion people in 115 countries are expected to turn off their lights for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m. their local time.
Some world-famous icons—the Acropolis, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Empire State Building, übermodel Gisele Bündchen (and her über-QB husband Tom Brady)—will also go dark during this global version of that sports-stadium crowd-energizer known as the wave. Government buildings and businesses, too. (See a list of Earth Hour supporters here.) It'd be a good time to be aboard the International Space Station to see the view from above.
The World Wildlife Fund has led this lights-out campaign for three years now. The organization's Web site states that "Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts. . . . "
It's easy to dim the lights for an hour. But after we turn the (hopefully energy-efficient) lights back on, a bigger question still looms: What are we willing to do to address the causes of climate change?
—Kimberly Janeway
Essential information: Visit our Energy Saving & Green Living guide for tips on reducing energy use and ways to save money.
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