Did the World Go Dark for 1 Hour on March 29, 2008?
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fitz in Environment on Mar 30If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Hi all…
Don’t know if you heard or not, but there was a movement afoot for people, businesses, and groups around the world to turn out their lights for one hour on March 29, 2008 at 8pm.
Source: Wikipedia
The idea wasn’t that one hour would change the world, but that one hour might get people around the world thinking about energy conservation. Even Google got into the act last night, going dark. And around the world, many thousands of people got the idea.
You can find out more about the movement here… at EarthHour.org.
We at home turned out all the lights for an hour and sat, singing and talking to candlelight in our living room. Though my girls, 3 and 7, were a little antsy, my wife suggested we do it at least once a month.
So what did everybody else do for earth hour?
–Fitz
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March 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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March 30th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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–Fitz
April 1st, 2008 at 5:20 am
When I went to Google on Saturday, I didn’t know what was going on. I had to refresh my browser and then I read something about Earth Hour.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I find it interesting that Google is one of the few huge names that’s really publicizing their efforts to make their operation more environmentally friendly — producing less heat, reusing it, reducing carbon footprint, and so on. They are definitely not the only company doing it, but they’re certainly getting a lot of good press out of it.