Earth Hour at 8.30pm...
Saturday, 28 March 2009 07:15 pmA quickie before I run and eat dinner... Am I the only person who hadn't heard of this until today?
Basically - everyone is turning their lights off for Earth Hour at 8.30pm tonight! In fact some countries have already done it for their 8.30... I had no idea about this until I saw my paper this morning - Landlady's little girl told me casually that they'd been told all about it at school last week... *headdesk* Anyway - this is what's going on, or alternatively, a brief extract:
Big Ben and Houses of Parliament to switch off the lights for Earth Hour: London landmarks join thousands of others around the world that will go dark for an hour to raise awareness about climate change
At 8:30pm today the luminous face of Big Ben will go dark. Next door, the houses of parliament will switch off all its lights too, along with thousands of landmarks, buildings and people around the world in a global gesture of solidarity in the fight against climate change.
From the international dateline, Earth Hour starts in New Zealand's Chatham Islands and will conclude in Honolulu. Passed like a baton around the planet, cities including Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Cape Town and Las Vegas will be darkened for an hour at 8:30pm local time to mark Earth Hour, the single biggest mass event to mark public concern over global warming.
More than 3,200 cities across 88 countries have signed up and the event has received support from international leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Environment campaign group WWF, which is co-ordinating the global event, expects hundreds of millions of people around the world to take part in turning out their lights for an hour, in the hope of sending a direct message to world leaders that their voters want urgent action to save the planet from rising temperatures.
Yeah, it's not quite as simple as "saving the planet from rising temperatures" - but that's the media for you, and that extract is from The Guardian newspaper. Still a worthy cause, I reckon...
Basically - everyone is turning their lights off for Earth Hour at 8.30pm tonight! In fact some countries have already done it for their 8.30... I had no idea about this until I saw my paper this morning - Landlady's little girl told me casually that they'd been told all about it at school last week... *headdesk* Anyway - this is what's going on, or alternatively, a brief extract:
Big Ben and Houses of Parliament to switch off the lights for Earth Hour: London landmarks join thousands of others around the world that will go dark for an hour to raise awareness about climate change
At 8:30pm today the luminous face of Big Ben will go dark. Next door, the houses of parliament will switch off all its lights too, along with thousands of landmarks, buildings and people around the world in a global gesture of solidarity in the fight against climate change.
From the international dateline, Earth Hour starts in New Zealand's Chatham Islands and will conclude in Honolulu. Passed like a baton around the planet, cities including Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai, Cape Town and Las Vegas will be darkened for an hour at 8:30pm local time to mark Earth Hour, the single biggest mass event to mark public concern over global warming.
More than 3,200 cities across 88 countries have signed up and the event has received support from international leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Environment campaign group WWF, which is co-ordinating the global event, expects hundreds of millions of people around the world to take part in turning out their lights for an hour, in the hope of sending a direct message to world leaders that their voters want urgent action to save the planet from rising temperatures.
Yeah, it's not quite as simple as "saving the planet from rising temperatures" - but that's the media for you, and that extract is from The Guardian newspaper. Still a worthy cause, I reckon...
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