Making the Most of Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour is Saturday, March 28th. Are you participating? Are you planning? If you’ve already signed up for Earth Hour, you’ve got two things left to do. Prepare to power down and plan what you’ll be doing from 8:30 to 9:30 PM.
Powering Down
Earth Hour is about turning off the lights for one hour. It may seem like just a little thing, but when everyone does it at once, the results are impressive. Look at a few statistics from 2008’s Earth Hour.
- Chicago kept 840,000 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
- In Toronto, there was an 8.7% reduction in energy.
- A 10.1% energy drop occurred in energy usage.
Those numbers can be even more impressive if we do more than just turn off the lights. Powering down everything non-essential in your home can reduce your energy usage even further.
