I received the ff. email:



WWF invites you to participate by shutting off lights for 60 minutes on Saturday, March 29, from 8-9 in the evening and organizing your own "lights-out" event or by forwarding this to your friends, workmates and family.

Launched in Australia on the 31st of March 2007, Earth Hour moved 2.2 million people and 2100 businesses in Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. This massive collective effort reduced the city's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour. With Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House turning their lights off and unique events such as weddings by candlelight, the world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions of Sydneysiders, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.

YOUR participation will go a long way in spreading the message that we, as individual droplets working collectively – can create an impetus far more powerful than the mightiest of rivers. For more information, log on to the WWF Earth Hour page at: www.earthhour.org.

Thanks for sharing, Emmy. I'm going to visit the earthhour page now.

I'd like to find out more about this earth hour event, and do my part.

Cathleen, love your avatar...I'm slightly addicted to Dexter.

Hooray for Global Movement!!! Thank you so much nymphadora, for this eye opener!!! I'm all for it!!!