What is it exactly? A global action that cascades around the world. A message of awareness. A savings of one hour of electricity. Who participates? Anyone & Everyone. Last year 80 million Americans alone participated. MARCH 27th, 2010 8:30pm your local time. (It is a cascading effect across the globe)
Globally:
* Empire State Building
* Brooklyn Bridge
* Broadway Theater Marquees
* Las Vegas Strip
* United Nations Headquarters
* Golden Gate Bridge
* Seattle’s Space Needle
* Church of Latter-Day Saints Temple
* Gateway Arch in St. Louis
* Great Pyramids of Giza
* Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens
* Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro
* St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City
* Big Ben and Houses of Parliament in London
* Elysee Palace and Eiffel Tower in Paris
* Beijing’s Birds Nest and Water Cube
* Symphony of Lights in Hong Kong
* Sydney’s Opera House
Nearly one billion people turned out for Earth Hour 2009 – involving 4,100 cities in 87 countries on seven continents. Let’s give it a try..shall we? Certainly we can scrounge up some candles for an hour on a Saturday night and amuse ourselves…
