Earth Hour 2009

[accadacca]

Started in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour quickly grew into a global observance. More than 1,000 cities in over 80 countries observed Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday March 28th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked. Let me state that again, since I know not everyone reads the whole intro here - starting with image #2 below, click on the image to see an animated fade between "on" and "off". This effect requires javascript to be enabled. (17 photos total)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/earth_hour_2009.html

[CrazyFinn]

Pics looked pretty cool!

[JP]

I turned on all my appliances and lights :2thumbs:

[KapitanSparrow]

I celebrated my earth hour between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. :haha:

[CarpeyBiggs]

anyone else think it is lame that they have a "celebration" for earth hour? turn off all the lights, and then have a band on stage with a huge billboard television behind them?

waste energy to celebrate saving energy... how fun.

[JP]

waste energy to celebrate saving energy... how fun.
It was a wash :haha: All the ones that observed it helped have that concert with no additional waste :haha:

[Sombeech]

http://bharrison.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/spinal_tap_but_it_goes_to_eleven.jpg

[CarpeyBiggs]

:roflol: