Earth Hour - Candlelight Night

Nothing really to do with craft, sewing or tea & roses, but it is something I am passionate about. Tonight we are switching our lights off for an hour at 8pm for Earth Hour. Joining in seems like the right thing to do at our house. Our carbon footprints are leaving marks on our planet and quite simple changes in all of our everyday lives can make a difference. Not just tonight. What type of future will our children and grandchildren have on this gorgeous blue planet known as Earth...

So what to do for an hour with no lights on? Well, it is Saturday night hehe but there are all sorts of fun events and experiences planned by lots of businesses and neighbourhoods. The creativity that some people have put into tonight is wonderful! OurBrisbane has lots of great ideas, for example: South Bank has a free screening of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. Some people will be heading to lookouts and hilltop vantage points to watch the city dim and others will be fine dining in romantic candlit restaurants across the city.

Perhaps I should get our vintage kerosene light (camping light) out from the garage and sit and do some hand needlework by lamplight, whilst pretending I am a lady from Victorian times :)

8pm Saturday 29th 2008
Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney event. Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement.

What started as a question in 2007 "How can we inspire people to take action on climate change?" resulted in 2.2 million Sydneysiders turning off their lights for an hour last year. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Brisbane tonight will be joining in this year too, along with millions of others in 23 other cities from around the world.

How it all began...



See the difference you can make - Earth Hour - earthhour.org

Every single light switched off, makes a statement and a difference . . .