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Earth Hour: Turn Out Your Lights Tomorrow Night!

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On Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 8pm, turn off your lights for one hour to be part of a global statement on climate change. The Earth Hour even was created by the World Wildlife Fund and took place for the first time in Sydney, Australia last year...

...but this time around the whole world is in on it.

Here is the scoop from the website: " In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town."

Click here for all the details.

We'll enjoy a dinner hour by candlelight tomorrow night, why not? Anyone else plan to join in?

Comments (10)

I'm a college student and I'm throwing a party that night! The lights will be out! The candles will be lit! The beer will be flowing! ^_^ Yay Earth Hour!

posted by shadowswimming on 2008-03-28 11:57:27
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Awesome...Im in!

posted by me-n-dj on 2008-03-28 11:57:33
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count me in. I will be having dinner with my daughter and her boyfriend tomorrow in Philly and it will be candlelight. We are joining you.

posted by dar on 2008-03-28 12:09:30
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We were just planning our earth hour night before I read this post - looks like we'll plan to have a candlelight dinner, then have our 2 daughters play a piano "concert" for us afterwards.

posted by suewanda on 2008-03-28 12:13:09
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Fantastic idea!

posted by SMM on 2008-03-28 12:36:06
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Bet ya a bunch of babies will be conceived on Saturday between 8 and 9! :)

posted by bohemianbeauty7 on 2008-03-28 12:53:00
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Can I come to that party, please. What a great idea, I'm in for an hour.

posted by bobbin on 2008-03-28 13:18:08
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Yeah! Let's do it.

posted by Christopherz on 2008-03-29 03:15:55
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The bdnews is a candle apparently puts more cardon dioxide into the atmosphere than a globe. Sigh.

It got very dark and quiet here in my Sydney street - and a 9:01 a party started - very loud music till midnight. Hmmm .... Hopefully they used pedal power like in Tel Aviv.

With regard to babies - out here it's hard to tell. The birthrate spikes in spring & summer and 9 months after March 31 is Dec 31.

posted by Deb of Oz on 2008-03-29 21:53:20
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should check speling - 'bad news' and 'carbon dioxide'.

posted by Deb of Oz on 2008-03-29 21:54:40
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