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Cities worldwide will turn off lights for Earth Hour

Posted at 1:27 PM on 20 Feb 2008

Mark your calendar for March 29, when cities around the world will switch off non-critical lights at 8:00 p.m. for an awareness-raising Earth Hour. At present, 24 cities -- with a total population of some 30 million people -- plan to participate in the energy-saving symbolism, from Toronto to Tel Aviv, Bangkok to Brisbane, Canberra to Copenhagen, and first Earth Hour participant Sydney to copycat event holder San Francisco. Thousands of individuals and businesses have also signed on to come to the dark side.

sources: Reuters, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canadian Press, Earth Hour 2008
see also, in Grist: 15 Green Cities

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Lights Out!

Good. As an Akira Kurosawa character said, it's supposed to be dark at night. Duh! Modern humans are such idiots, and their idiocy is destroying our planet. You can't even see the stars at night anymore due to all the disgusting street lights.

by Wolverine at 3:15 PM on 20 Feb 2008

8PM switch-off

Sounds like a plan to crash the power grids.

by danallen at 12:48 PM on 21 Feb 2008

Sunset is not until 8:40 PM in my town on 3/29/08

so keeping the lights off won't be much of a sacrifice!

by rivergal at 1:53 PM on 21 Feb 2008

defeating the purpose

okay, so several restaurants here in Chicago are promoting this as an opportunity to have a candlelit dinner. however, candles arguably have a much worse heat:light generation ratio than even incandescents, and generate not insignificant amounts of pollution. whoops.

by Payton Chung at 4:47 PM on 27 Mar 2008

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