I am sitting here in the wee hours of Saturday morning, March 29th, pecking away at the keyboard in hopes that everyone who reads my blog will tune in sometime during the next 17 hours. I am hoping for this because between 8 and 9 p.m. this evening, the entire world is being asked to “dim down” by turning off lights for one hour. The event, dubbed Earth Hour, is an international environmental awareness campaign that started last year in Sydney, Australia and that the World Wildlife Fund is taking global this year.
In Sydney last year, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney business establishments turned off their lights for an hour. The carbon emissions saved owing to the brief shut down amounted to the same as taking 48,000 cars off the road for an entire year. So far this year, 35 nations, 370 cities, towns and councils worldwide have pledged to turn out their lights for one hour. This includes Continue reading















































