Tuvalu to Times Square; landmarks off for Earth Hour

[cory777]

Source: Reuters

Sat Mar 27, 10:22 pm ET

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Landmarks such as Sydney's Opera House, Beijing's Forbidden City and Taiwan's Taipei 101 office tower temporarily went dark on Saturday as nations dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on climate change.

The symbolic one-hour switch-off, first held in Sydney in 2007, has become an annual global event and organizers World Wide Fund for Nature said they expect this year's to be the biggest so far.

The remote Chatham Islands was the first of more than 100 nations and territories to turn off the power at 8:30 p.m. local time, in a rolling event around the globe that ends just across the International Dateline in Samoa 24 hours later.

Tiny Tuvalu, which fears being wiped off the map from rising sea levels, tried to go carbon-neutral for the event, pledging to cut power to its nine low-lying Pacific atolls and asking car and motorcycle owners to stay off the roads, WWF said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100328/wl_nm/us_climate_earthhour

[Hawkeye-X]

1. We were out during the Earth Hour

but we still had to do a shitload of cooking (now 12:24 local time) to catch up to get ready for Passover.

[a la izquierda]

2. my husband and i read magazines by lantern...

then went out. the only lights on were our solar driveway lights.

[bertman]

3. I'm glad my wife reminded me about Earth Hour or we would not have participated. We

shut off all the lights and went to candle light and kerosene lantern light. Our house was the only one in the neighborhood that observed it though.

Maybe next year this will take off.

Rec.