{news} Lights Out for Climate Change is March 28, 2009 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm

[B Barry]

Dear All,

 

I thought some of you might be interested in this, if you have not heard of
it already.

 

More than 1,000 cities in 80 countries are expected to participate in Earth
Hour on March 28, 2009 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. 

World Wildlife Fund, the event’s sponsor, is asking individuals, businesses,
governments, and organizations to turn off their lights for one hour to make
a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate
commitment to finding solutions.

“We are asking people to vote with their light switch”, said Dan Forman, a
spokesman for World Wildlife Fund.  “For every light they turn off, it is in
effect a vote for action on climate change.”

Other participating US cities include Washington, D.C., New York, Los
Angles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami and Dallas. 

Universities, including Harvard, have signed up to campaign for the cause.

Two million people participated in the first Earth Hour in 2007, which began
in Sydney. 

Last year the event went global, with more than 400 cities around the world
participating. 

Lights on structures including the Golden Gate Bridge, Sydney Opera House,
and the Empire State Building also went dark last year, as well as the
Google homepage,  

Fifty million people around the world---36 million in the United States—shut
off their lights to raise awareness last year.

 

To a better life and world!

 

Barbara Barry


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