Lights Out Tonight for Earth Hour
Turn out the lights at 8:30 on Saturday night.
Time zone by time zone, the lights will go off around the globe this Saturday night.
This advancing darkness won’t be caused by some cyber criminal hacking into electrical grids or by an unusual cosmic occurrence.
Rather, as part of the Earth Hour campaign and its worldwide call for action on climate change, 1 billion people in 115 countries are expected to turn off their lights for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m. their local time.
Some world-famous icons—the Acropolis, Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Empire State Building, übermodel Gisele Bündchen (and her über-QB husband Tom Brady)—will also go dark during this global version of that sports-stadium crowd-energizer known as the wave. Government buildings and businesses, too. (See a list of Earth Hour supporters here.) It’d be a good time to be aboard the International Space Station to see the view from above.
The World Wildlife Fund has led this lights-out campaign for three years now. The organization’s Web site states that “Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts. . . . “
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