Make every hour Earth Hour!

Thanks for turning out your lights for Earth Hour and sending a strong message to our government that we need to take action on climate change.  Now please consider making changes in your everyday life by joining The Good Life.

WWF-Canada’s new interactive website, The Good Life, guides you with actions you can take to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions created through your daily activities.  As with Earth Hour, these actions multiplied across the country will send a resounding message to our government that Canadians are ready for change.     

wwf.ca/earthhour  population

How wonderful that the world can truly unite for a good cause ~

I saw some pictures of the Toronto skyline all dark during Earth Hour!

Here is more about today's amazing global event ~

"Major Cities Go Dark for Earth Hour

From the Sydney Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization went dark Saturday for Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

The environmental group WWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were.

The campaign began last year in Australia, and traveled this year from the South Pacific to Europe to North America in cadence with the setting of the sun.

'What's amazing is that it's transcending political boundaries and happening in places like China, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea,' said Andy Ridley, executive director of Earth Hour. "It really seems to have resonated with anybody and everybody."

Earth Hour officials hoped 100 million people would turn off their nonessential lights and electronic goods for the hour. Electricity plants produce greenhouse gases that fuel climate change.

In Chicago, lights on more than 200 downtown buildings were dimmed Saturday night, including the stripe of white light around the top of the John Hancock Center. The red-and-white marquee outside Wrigley Field also went dark.

Workers in Phoenix turned out the lights in all downtown city-owned buildings for one hour. Darkened restaurants glowed with candlelight in San Francisco while the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and other landmarks extinguished lights for an hour.

New Zealand and Fiji were first out of the starting blocks this year. And in Sydney, Australia - where an estimated 2.2 million observed the blackout last year - the city's two architectural icons, the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, faded to black against a dramatic backdrop of a lightning storm.

Lights also went out at the famed Wat Arun Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand; shopping and cultural centers in Manila, Philippines; several castles in Sweden and Denmark; the parliament building in Budapest, Hungary; a string of landmarks in Warsaw, Poland; and both London City Hall and Canterbury Cathedral in England.

Greece, an hour ahead of most of Europe, was the first on the continent to mark Earth Hour. On the isle of Aegina, near Athens, much of its population marched by candlelight to the port. Parts of Athens itself, including the floodlit city hall, also turned to black.

In Ireland, where environmentalists are part of the coalition government, lights-out orders went out for scores of government buildings, bridges and monuments in more than a dozen cities and towns.

Associated Press writers Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin, Ireland; Tanalee Smith in Sydney, Australia; and other AP reporters worldwide contributed to this report."

I'm in, I just purchased a honey candle (hard to find in my area) ... perfect time to use it.  Turn the lights out and use this hour to pay respect to our Mother Earth (GAIA) that's what I'm going to do.

Count me in! I will spread the word with friends and family too!

I had also posted about this event called Earth Hour San Francisco 2008. Thanks again for the reminder. It will be lights out for us here in joining in with so many others participating in this event. Be the light! Starlady

I'll be joining you all this Saturday in the Earth Hour ~ following you in the east coast by a few hours!

This is a great global statement about climate change and is great and encouraging to see how this event has grown from Sydney to a global movement in one year! ~ Thanks Divine Earth! ~  

Awesome!!!!

thnx DivineEarth for sharin' w/ da gang about's "EARTH HOUR" - yaaay!! :D :D

Yepz! - me's heard about da "Earth Hour" special event a while's ago while me wuz doin' sum eco-researchin'!  -- n' me found'z da website page too's!! -- and thoguth's what a kool idea! - Gettin' everyone be's a part of it!! -- and spread da message around da world in a simple yet powerful way -- by turnin' off our lights - for an hour -- Makin' a big difference!! -- dat right!! -- Imagine how much energy we save's up in just an hour's time -- by shuttin' off any extra lights we don't use (esp. dem' NASSTY energy waster's - da reg. light bulb!!), turnin' off any appliances dat use up a lot of power's.....It's a small sacrifice for raisin' global awareness for preservin' our beautiful planet! - WOOO!!!

YEA! YEA! -- so remember's everyone! -- 8pm ur local time, shut out em lites!! - CLEECK!! - Spoooky dark! - hahahaa! -- lite em candles!! ~ Switch off da "Main Switch" n' party like it's 1899! - :D

DAT RIGHT! - for me, it might be a lil' harder to convince my folks (esp. my krazy bro, obsessed w/ his vid. gamin' n' stuff) --- but me's gonna do's it!! - ;) ;)

~ Peace, Love, Joy ~

I have my candles ready! What a great way to save energy.