Do you know about Earth Hour, 8 PM your time tonight?

I read about this yesterday on Beth OwlsDaughter's blog, then received an email from Gaian Tarot reader Danielle Salerno.  I'm going to quote part of Danielle's email to me:

Earth Hour is an initiative run by the World Wildlife Federation to get the notice of the public on reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.  On Saturday March 29th, 2008 communities, individuals, and businesses across the globe will be turning off their lights for one hour, from 8pm to 9pm (local time).  Last year this was done in Sydney, Australia with very encouraging results (i.e. a 10.2% reduction in annual greenhouse gas emissions for the whole city), and this year it is being opened up to the rest of the world.

If each of us turns off our lights for one hour on Saturday night, it would make a big difference globally, both in reducing emissions and in increasing awareness about the seriousness of global warming.  More information about Earth Hour, including an online sign-up and free media can be found at www.earthhour.org.

And just now I stumbled across this report from CNN, "First cities go dark for Earth Hour" . . . Sydney has done it again!

I'm in!  I'll be turning the lights out tonight at 8:00.   How about you?

Comments

[Jaspenelle]

I will probably still be at a discussion group this time tonight at my friend's home, but if we are all still there we will be turning off the lights. If I am home by then I'll be turning off the lights then. :-)

[Cate (kerrdelune)]

Joanna, we are observing "Earth Hour" this evening too, no lights, no sound system, no television and no computer. It's a lovely thing to do, to cut down on foolishly expended energy and toxic emissions for an hour or two.

The sad state of Gaia's health at present, and the shabby treatment She is getting from humankind leave me feeling sick and shaky. How can we be doing such a thing to our Mother?

[Sondra]

We participated in earth hour and it was wonderful! We lit a fire in the fireplace and set up candles and my husband, 5 year old son and I sat around and played board games. My house has not been that peaceful in a long time. I think we are going to turn this into a weekly event for us. It was so refreshing to be "unplugged"!

[Danielle]

Hey, thanks for posting this, Joanna! I was really excited Saturday night to see how many lights went dark on my street!

We had the lights out and the candles going, and apparantly the bats really appreciated it, because we were graced with the presence of one of them that found it's way in the house!! Yikes!!