Earth Hour is an awareness day about Global Warming complementing Earth Day. It consists of switching off the light from 8.30pm to 9.30pm- local time- for all participants of the world. This event is organized by WWF (World Wild Fund for Nature) and is always celebrated on the last Saturday of March annually. Everyone- households as well as businesses- are asked to « turn off the lights, the electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas. » (wikipedia)
This global event was suggested by WWF and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007. On that day, « 2.2 million Sydney residents turned off all non-essential lights.". Since then, many countries have followed this example.
How did it work in New York? Let's have a look on one- if not the only one- of the videos about the event I found on youtube.
Well...we can notice some efforts in the City of lights. But hopefully NY will do better for edition 2012...
What do you think?
Personally, I completely and shamefully missed it. There was probably not enough communication on the subject...:(
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