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Shea Gunther

Earth Hour scenes from around the world

The world turned off the lights for an hour Saturday night to bring awareness to the problems posed by global warming. Here's what it looked like.

Mon, Mar 30 2009 at 8:01 AM EST
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More than a billion people turned their lights off on Saturday night in celebration of Earth Hour. The green blogosphere and Twitterverse was a buzz with excited greenies soaking up the darkness between 8:30 and 9:30pm as they sought to raise awareness of climate change and our need to do something about it. Just like New Years Eve, Earth Hour swept across the world as time zones ticked over to the 8:30pm mark.

Here are a few photographs from the festivities.

Sydney-

Tokyo-

San Francisco-

Boston-

Kalamazoo-

Boulder-

And finally, here's a photo of me celebrating in the dark up here in Maine.
Set your calendar, Earth Hour 2010 is just a few hundred days away. Get ready!

(Yeah, I woke up feeling cheeky today. To check out real photos of Earth Hour, swing over to the Earth Hour homepage or this amazing collection from Boston.com. Also check out the interview my pal Jeffrey did with the Mayor of Nashville talking about Earth Hour. )

 

Are you on Twitter? Follow me (@sheagunther) there, I give good tweets.

 

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ChicagoMom 03/30/2009 17:02 PM

in NYC was when they had that huge power outage maybe three years ago...once everyone realized that nothing terrorist had happened, everyone turned the city into a big roving party...I swayed into Central Park for awhile and it felt like, I don't know, Colorado or something.

it just goes to show how light-influenced our cities are.

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Momof2 03/30/2009 13:05 PM

....were amazed & blown-away by seeing our (very large) city go dark around them...thanks to everyone who helped with this...we love our urban home but i grow sad for my children when I think of their daily disconnect from nature.

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Luce 03/30/2009 05:58 AM

I had the same problem as Pamela and then my braincell kicked in :)

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Cameron 03/30/2009 03:50 AM

hahhahhahaha i just waited for about 10mins for the pictures to load than realised it was a joke hahahahahahahah fantastic

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Pamela Drake 03/30/2009 09:30 AM

..a bit of cheekiness in the morning! (and, truthfully, this is just what Earth Hour looked like from my window).

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