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RE: Earth Hour

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Earth Hour 2012: 8.30pm, Saturday 31 March

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Turn off the lights, André will be watching

Are you turning off the lights in your home this weekend for Earth Hour? ESA astronaut André Kuipers will be watching that you do from the International Space Station.
Earth Hour is a world effort to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change. At 20:30 local time on Saturday, people all over the world will be turning off non-essential lights. World Wide Fund for Nature ambassador André Kuipers and ESA are doing their part.
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Please douse lights year round, not just during Earth Hour

Earth Hour was devised to bring attention to energy conservation.
This in fact does make the public aware of energy waste but only lasts for one hour out of the year. If B.C. Hydro, provincial governments, and municipalities were really serious about conserving energy, I have some suggestions.
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Earth Hour: Lights to go off at Scottish landmarks

More than 100 Scottish landmarks and iconic structures will be plunged into darkness later as part of a global climate change campaign.
Edinburgh Castle, the Scottish Parliament building and the Falkirk Wheel, usually lit up at night, are among the landmarks marking Earth Hour.
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Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened world

Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan's earthquake and tsunami.
From across the Pacific, to Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, iconic landmarks such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, New York's Empire State building and the Eiffel Tower in Paris will go dark.
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Ed ~ Saturday 26 March 2011 - 8.30pm

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Sydney goes dark for Earth Hour

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Earth Hour starts at 8.30pm tonight.

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Earth Hour is a global event organised by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
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Stan Sammy needs your help to stargaze this Saturday.
The St. Catharines amateur astronomer is hoping for a rare celestial event. It's not a meteor shower, or an eclipse, or even a particularly clear view of a planet.
Sammy just wants to see more stars from his backyard.
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