Earth Hour Day - Dark city, bright idea
Today is earth hour day. People all over the world have been switching off lights for an hour to show concern at global warming. Google.com homepage as a gesture (keeping google.com homepage with black background) to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. This event created by the World Wildlife Fund.
What is earth hour?
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.
Which cities involved around the world?
List of cities? http://www9.earthhourus.org/cities.php
What I can do about it?
You can do something to reduce the energy consumption of your home PC by joining the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Also, turn off your (non-emergency) home lights at 8.PM for 1 hour.
More information:
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Earth hour day wikipedia.org page
Flicking the switch - before and after earth hour pictures/photos, here, here and here
Suggestion to Google.com:
Google.com or such major traffic website should do this (blackout their home page) everyday around 5.00 PM (office leaving time) to remind people to turn off their office light and computer before they go home. Small things make a big difference.
Google.com homepage on earth hour day: (March 29)
Australia Sydney during earth hour:
Frequent flashes of far-off lightning lit the clouds as Sydney’s skyline went dark at 8 pm. 
Via [Google.com earth hour page and earthhour.org]
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