Green Options » city of Vancouver http://greenoptions.com/tag/city-of-vancouver Posts tagged 'city of Vancouver' Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Earth Hour: Tooth fairy delusion or one hour vigil? http://ecowriter.greenoptions.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour-tooth-fairy-delusion-or-one-hour-vigil/ http://ecowriter.greenoptions.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour-tooth-fairy-delusion-or-one-hour-vigil/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:21:55 +0000 Olga Orda http://ecowriter.greenoptions.com/2008/03/29/earth-hour-tooth-fairy-delusion-or-one-hour-vigil/

Image source: http://timblair.net | Lights out for Sydney, Australia 2007

An http://greenprinteronline.com dispatch. 

Earth Hour is tonight, March 29th from 8 to 9 pm. The idea is to turn off the lights as a symbolic gesture that us citizens, business owners, uber-corporations (hello, Google’s black screen, hello McDonalds in Toronto saving 10 000 kilowatt hours) local governments and non-profit groups are taking climate change seriously.

Despite gripes that Earth Hour falls on the NCAA basketball regional, it’s lights out for over 23 major cities worldwide like Toronto and Bangkok.

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