Earth Hour This Saturday

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

The event started in 2007 when 2.2 million homes switched off their lights in Australia. In 2008 it became a global event with 50 million participants. This year, it has reached a new level, with the goal of a billion participants. The Pyramids of Giza, the Acropolis in Athens, and the Empire State Building will switch their lights off. More than 1000 towns and cities have signed up. While doing my daily perusal of NHL news today I even learned that one hockey team rescheduled their weekend match-up so the arena could turn off the lights at the appointed time.

Just click the above animation to join and sign up!