Lights out for Earth day?

SonLight

How many have stories to tell about dimming/turning off lights for one hour for Earth Day? I understand there was an "Earth Hour" movement that advocated turning off lights on Mar 28:

http://www.earthhour.org/action/

At least some people dimmed (again?) on Earth Day, April 22. I'm not sure if it was considered an "official" Earth Day activity or not, but we turned off nearly all of the lights from 9:00 to 10:00. I suggested a reason for doing it was that Google wanted to take a picture, so I had everyone say "cheese". I walked outside for awhile and thought about looking at stars, but of course the street lights were still on. I did see what I thought MIGHT have been the big dipper. Oh, the sacrifices we make to live in the city.

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This isn't technically news, since it's not based on a particular news story; the Earth category didn't seem quite right either. It surely doesn't belong in "general" though, does it? Come to think of it, it's a pretty cheesy post ... Maybe I need to suggest a new category ...
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PS: you may be right, I may be crazy, but we all enjoyed the weekend for a change.

deanhills

sana618

ho yes it was here in Dubai too. most of the important buildings had shut off their lights on 28th march. it was kind of eerie to see the tallest building the Burj Al Arab all in darkness.

http://www.earthhour.org/news/ae:en/article?id=eh5313975996068677367

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/514103-dubai-to-dim-lights-for-earth-hour

and i'm happy to say that i participated in this movement. i switched off all the lights n all the other electronic things in my room, even the lights n other things in my various fish tanks.

melind

I wish I knew that people turned their lights out for earth day. I'm sad I missed it. Sad

prithvi

Thanks for the info. I had only heard about this, but never bothered to know the fact behind it.

harismushtaq

Good for us. There is plenty of power shortage in our country these days. So we observe earth hour for 4 hours every day, as there is power failure that often.

coolclay

Earth Hour is a joke in my opinion. If people would would be power conscience on an every hour every day basis then we would have something. I don't understand why people don't not only does it help the environment but it also puts money back in your pocket. Now who doesn't want that!

medesignz

No one told me... I obviously would have worked by candlelight with my laptop... Laughing

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