According to the Associated Press, from Sydney's Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of our modern fast paced, power-thirsty

civilization went dark on 3.29 to mark the climate change threat.

Today, Earth Hour has already been transformed into a much
more powerful, immediate, accessible, and visible symbol of our concern for the green movement and climate change than its predecessors, Earth Day and Al Gore's Live Earth concerts.

The Internet - today's preferred means for news, information, and activism - is broadcasting the Earth Hour message with exciting news updates and videos that are undeniably dark, sexy, and compelling. The problem: We missed 2008. The solution: 2009.

March 2009
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