energy enlightenment – TokSick https://www.toksick.com Videos, Funny Pictures, Sports, Hot Babes, Beer, Celebrities Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:33:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Earth Hour 2010, March 27th https://www.toksick.com/2010/03/16/earth-hour-2010-march-27th/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:23:08 +0000 https://www.toksick.com/?p=5601 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.
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…

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