WHERE WERE YOU DURING INTERNATIONAL EARTH HOUR?? – March 29 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. local time
2007 marked the first Earth Hour organized by The World Wildlife Fund as a Global Warming Awareness event in Sydney, Australia where two million residents and 2,000 businesses shut off their lights for an hour. This year cities such as Sydney, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, and Bangkok plus eight major North American cities officially logged on www.earthhour.org to log off for the event. Non-essential lighting (leaving emergency-type systems) were darkened for at least portions of the skyline in Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Niagara Falls’ 180-foot-high lightshow includes (21) 250-million-candlepower spotlights which were switched off, as well as the roof lights on the Sears Tower in Chicago. Businesses in these cities were encouraged to turn off as many lights as possible during the hour. Many other individual businesses signed on to the awareness gig, not only making a corporate statement, but easing their own bottom lines a bit.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.