Earth Hour 2009: 10+ Ways to Have Fun In The Dark Tonight
Earth Hour 2009 is only 9 hours away (for CST), but is from 8:30-9:30pm local time everywhere.
Are you ready? I sure am!
This year Earth Hour will be the 1st global election in the history of the world...and anyone of any age or any nationality can vote.
On one ballot is the Earth and on the other, Global Warming.
Your vote is as simple as flipping off your light switch for an hour.
What can you do while you're in the dark for an hour? Oh the FUN of the possibilities doesn't seem to have an end...
If you're still not quite sure what Earth Hour actually is, CNET's Green Tech blog describes it in a pretty cool way, calling it:
"A sort of open-source movement against global warming."
At last report, 3,900 cities in 84 countries have pledged to participate in Earth Hour 2009!
Looks like there's a great chance for reaching those 1 billion light-switch-flipping "votes" for The Earth in this global election. What will happen with those votes? They'll be presented to world leaders at the UN Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this year, telling our governments that we care about dealing with the problem called global warming.
Fun Things to Do for Earth Hour 2009:
- Have a candlelight party
- Play flashlight tag
- Go on a flashlight hike
- Attend a local Earth Hour event or party
- Upload pics of your Earth Hour festivities to Earth Hour's flickr group and tag it with your city and country
- Upload your Earth Hour videos to the Earth Hour youtube group
- Write a live blog post about your Earth Hour event and tag it with "earthhour" and "voteearth"
- Twitter about all the fun you're having in the dark and use the hashtags #earthhour or #voteearth and #[your location]
- Join Earth Connect
- Submit your Earth Hour story to CNN's iReport
Also check out fun ways you can get the entire family involved in Earth Hour tonight!
Join the 1 billion people, 829 landmarks (including the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Eiffel Tower), and thousands of cities in dozens of countries tonight and cast your vote by switching off your lights...or steel chair weilding pandas might p0wn you!
What fun festivities do you have planned for Earth Hour tonight?
I watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" just before earth hour in Singapore. Also visited some sites to learn more about Renewable Resources and got to know more about climate change, global warming. Hope there are more such activities to make people like myself to get more serious about saving the planet
We will be enjoying our hot tub under the stars (or raindrops) while sipping on adult beverages.
We'll also have our eyes open for tornadoes after all of the weird weather we've had this afternoon!