Sydney, Australia turned it’s lights off for an hour in participation of Earth Hour. Now was it that difficult?

The environmental group WWF urged governments, businesses and households to turn back to candle power on March 29, 2008 for at least 60 minutes starting at 8 p.m. wherever they were. The campaign began last year in Australia, and traveled this year from the South Pacific to Europe to North America in cadence with the setting of the sun.

Earth Hour officials hoped 100 million people would turn off their nonessential lights and electronic goods for the hour.

Electricity plants produce greenhouse gases that fuel climate change. An average household in Canada is said to use approximately 10,000 kilowatt hours per year. It’s all about reducing carbon dioxide emissions. It’s good to be green!

Google lent its support to Earth Hour by blackening its normally white home page and challenging visitors: “We’ve turned the lights out. Now it’s your turn.”

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The Polarcat Campaign is also a green project. Check it out HERE to better understand the scope of this international effort to study massive pollution plumes as they are inherently transported into the Arctic atmosphere.

This Project is coordinated by NASA’s ESPO