| Earth Hour by Marisa Rafal The first year Earth Hour took place in Sydney, Australia. Everyone in unison turned off their lights for one hour. They were just one city, but because they united to support that one cause, and turned off all of their lights for just one hour they saved enough energy to power 48,216 cars for a whole entire 60 minutes (one hour). But honestly, why take a car when you can walk/bike and get the exercise? Either way they saved A TON of energy and that was just one city; imagine what we can do all together! This year it will take place on March 28th at 8:30 pm. It may not seem like you can make that much of a difference, but the truth is, you can. Also, Somerville won’t be the only place taking part this year, 62 other cities have announced that they are joining to the WWF (the group that runs it) including: Dubai, Warsaw, London, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Los Angeles, Rome and Beijing, and many, many more References: New moon Magazine (the inspiration for this article) cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/earth_hour_backgrounder.pdf The website above is a great website if you want more information on earth hour. Read Green, the environmental supplement issue of Happeningnow! everywhere. |
| LIGHTS OUT !!!! ON SATURDAY NIGHT, March 28th 8:30-9:30 |