Earth Hour Circles The Globe
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 3,
March 2011
Australia's Opera House was the first of many global landmarks to go dark as the event got underway.
A record number of Sydneysiders switched their lights off for the event, which ran from 8:30pm to 9:30pm AEDT.
Oz Grid Energy says energy use in the Sydney CBD dropped by 12 per cent during the hour - the equivalent of turning off 2 million energy efficient light bulbs.
Hundreds of millions of people followed suit in a global event which organisers have dubbed the world's largest voluntary action for the environment.
Other landmark buildings included Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium, which hosted the 2008 Olympics, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the London Eye Ferris wheel, Times Square in New York and Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue. Read the full report here.
Source: ABC Online, Sydney.
