Earth Hour U.S.

lightbulbRecently I received an email from a concerned citizen of Northfield. Her email advised me of the upcoming “Earth Hour.”

Dawn Radabaugh passed along that on March 28, 2009, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., millions of people around the globe will be turning off the lights for one hour –“ Earth Hour” – to make a bold statement about climate change. More than 50 million people switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2008. Lights went out in the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Coliseum in Rome and the Sydney Opera House. Even Google’s home page went dark for the day. Hundreds of cities have already agreed to participate in Earth Hour 2009, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Sydney and Hong Kong.

By turning off your lights for Earth Hour, you will be symbolically:

*Urging the U.S. administration to lead the global effort to secure a strong new climate change treaty.
*Supporting global efforts to curb deforestation, the cause of nearly 20 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.
*Supporting legislation to establish a cap-and-trade program to lower domestic greenhouse gas emissions and promote the creation of a low carbon economy through renewable energy sources and improved energy efficiency standards.
*Encouraging the development of a preparedness strategy to assess and cope with the impacts of climate change on people, regions, ecosystems and agriculture in the United States.

I am asking all the citizens of Minnesota to join Dawn and me in this ecologically friendly effort and turn off the lights for one hour. I also want to thank Dawn for bringing this to my attention and encourage all of you to take the opportunity, if you haven’t done it already, to switch to the eco-friendly fluorescent bulbs available at all your hardware stores.

Related posts:

  1. Earth Charter Summit – October 11, 2003
  2. Focus The Nation (FTN)
  3. Earth Day, April 22, 2008
  4. “Eyewitness to Global Warming” Event
  5. Energy and Economic Development

One thought on “Earth Hour U.S.”

  1. NatureAdvice says:
    March 13, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at http://www.commit21.com