Nelly Furtado Says Turn Out The Light for Earth Hour
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.10.08
Last March Sydney, Australia introduced the world to the hour without power, the hugely successful Earth Hour. This year hundreds of cities around the world in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Greece, Ireland and more are signed up to turn out the lights on March 29th for an hour. In the USA, (separate website here), "Chicago will serve as the U.S. flagship city for Earth Hour in 2008, with Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco joining as leading partner cities."
Toronto is making a big deal of it, with a big outdoor acoustic free concert starring Nellie Furtado, no doubt doing a version of Turn out the Light. More at ::Earth Hour via ::Torontoist
even the popes going green...
http://green.yahoo.com/news/nm/20080310/hl_nm/pope_sins_dc.html
Maybe they should do what we did in South Africa in our Save Water Campaign. We had a popular saying "Save Water, Shower Together". Maybe we can say - "Switch Off The Light, And Create Some Heat". Okay, sorry. Maybe over the top. But make it fun to get people to switch. Don't you think? www.angryafrican.com
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This was promoted in our newspaper with a picture showing a couple having a candle lit dinner in the hilton. I would suggest that lighting a candle would be a lot worse for the enviroment than switching on a light. Imagine if for this hour everyone in the world turned off their lights and lit a candle. We might just speed up global warming by 10 years!