At 8:30 p.m. this Saturday, you can join the worldwide movement called "Earth Hour" by switching off your lights. The symbolic gesture is a call for action on climate change.
"In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation," according to the official Earth Hour Web site.
Last year, 80 million Americans participated, and several buildings around the world went dark, too: the Empire State Building, the Las Vegas Strip, Seattle's Space Needle, the Great Pyramids, the Acropolis, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and Sydney's Opera House.
It's a simple but powerful gesture. But if you want to do more to get involved, click here.
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