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Earth Hour aims to be the world's biggest turn-off ever Saturday
Diana Palka
Issue date: 3/25/09 Section: Campus News
Saturday Gardner-Webb students, staff and faculty have the opportunity to "use their light switch as their vote" and participate in the World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund's annual Earth Hour.
From 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., the WWF urging people world wide to shut off their lights in efforts to reach its goal of 1 billion "votes."
People and businesses around the world have pledged to participate this year, according to eathhour.org
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday urged citizens around the world to join in Earth Hour.
The "votes" will be presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark this December. This meeting should culminate in the Copenhagen Accord, which should cut greenhouse gas emissions beyond what the Kyoto Protocol negotiated in 1997 and put into effect in 2005.
Earth Hour dates back to 2007 when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights for an hour in Sydney, Australia, in a program conceived by the WWF.
Last year, the results skyrocketed to 50 million. This included monumental participants such as San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and New York City's Times Square.
From 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., the WWF urging people world wide to shut off their lights in efforts to reach its goal of 1 billion "votes."
People and businesses around the world have pledged to participate this year, according to eathhour.org
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday urged citizens around the world to join in Earth Hour.
The "votes" will be presented at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Denmark this December. This meeting should culminate in the Copenhagen Accord, which should cut greenhouse gas emissions beyond what the Kyoto Protocol negotiated in 1997 and put into effect in 2005.
Earth Hour dates back to 2007 when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights for an hour in Sydney, Australia, in a program conceived by the WWF.
Last year, the results skyrocketed to 50 million. This included monumental participants such as San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and New York City's Times Square.
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posted 12/09/09 @ 7:37 AM EST
I think it is great that people and businesses around the world have pledged to participate this year.
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