Earth hour is an event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature in which participants switch off lights for one hour at night. The objective is to produce an hour of darkness as a means of highlighting the need for global action on climate change.
Earth Hour - climate change campaigners urge global switch-offhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/26/energy-climate-change
The fourth annual lights-out event expects 1 billion participants, and counts for the first time international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building and the Burj Khalifa
WWF’s Earth Hour 2009 was a massive global phenomenon. Our thanks to the millions of people around the world who switched off their lights for one hour on Saturday 28 March – you sent a dramatic visual signal to world leaders that they must take urgent action on climate change. This awe-inspiring event kickstarted our efforts to secure a strong ‘global deal’ at the Copenhagen UN climate summit in December.
During Earth Hour, iconic international landmarks like Sydney Opera House, the Acropolis, the Bird’s Nest stadium in China, the pyramids of Giza, the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and Big Ben were all plunged into darkness for 60 minutes as part of the largest global action of its kind ever.
WWF's Earth Hour 2009 kicked off at 8.30pm in the Pacific islands and New Zealand, and took the world by storm as it travelled east to west. We compiled some of the many highlights from around the world as they happened...
Watch lights going out around the world...
http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/about_earth_hour/global_lights/
Well, we all know what happened at Copenhagen. Perhaps this years event will have more impact. It's possible, but is it likely?
Blacking out big time.
Hypothetically speaking - what would happen if this protest was staged, not at night by switching off lights, but by day with the making of smoke? What would our planet look like for one day as protesters lit smudge pots? Not the ones the farmers use but the target obscuring kind - about 1 liter of diesel would do. If only 500 million people did this, how black might the sky be? Maybe politicians would take more notice of 1 hours worth of soot from half a billion people than they seem to do of nearly 7 billion people pumping CO2 into the sky 24/7.
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