{"id":9885,"date":"2008-03-24T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/it%e2%80%99s-lights-out-for-%e2%80%9cearth-hour-2008%e2%80%9d-on-march-29.html"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:56:14","slug":"its-lights-out-for-earth-hour-2008-on-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/its-lights-out-for-earth-hour-2008-on-march-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights out for \u201cEarth Hour 2008\u201d on March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Posted by Kevin Doell<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mxu3MluKl8A&amp;\">This is cool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I\u2019m kicking off a company-wide employee green Task Force and, wouldn\u2019t you know it, someone sent me a link to <a title=\"Earth Hour 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth Hour 2008.<\/a> Great timing. Check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty simple idea that is intriguing, though immensely complicated to execute I bet. On Saturday, March 29th, the organizers at Earth Hour (the folks from the <a title=\"WWF\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwildlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Wildlife Fund<\/a>, WWF) are asking everyone to turn off their lights from 8-9 p.m., local time, in the fight to reduce global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, they pulled this off in Sydney and claimed to have had 2.2 million residents join in. This year, their Web site points to a host of partner cities that are participating, including Chicago and Atlanta in the U.S. and dozens more around the world. They even have a corporate counter that is tallying the number of companies registering their participation. At the time of this post, they are nearing the 12,000 mark. 190,000 individuals have joined as well.<\/p>\n<p>Cool site. Well done, with lots of prepackaged items to spur people along on a <a title=\"Downloads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\/downloads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downloads<\/a> page. It\u2019s a great template on how to arm people for a grass roots campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The great idea embedded here is the simple notion to get involved in the growing number of these community-based events that are tapping into the tremendous interest and energy of the green movement. What a perfect opportunity to make a difference while connecting with others.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I\u2019m just seeing this now makes me feel like I\u2019ve been living in a cave. Has anyone else heard of this one? I\u2019m assuming people have because the site is horribly slow and I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s because it\u2019s getting crushed with traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Be patient if you check out.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Earth Hour 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2008\/03\/eh_728x90b.gif\" alt=\"Earth Hour 2008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Kevin Doell This is cool. Tomorrow I\u2019m kicking off a company-wide employee green Task Force and, wouldn\u2019t you know it, someone sent me a link to Earth Hour 2008. Great timing. Check out the video above. It\u2019s a pretty simple idea that is intriguing, though immensely complicated to execute I bet. On Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[8921,12421,13401,16761],"class_list":["post-9885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-and-branding","tag-community-action","tag-earth-hour","tag-environment","tag-global-warming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Earth Hour 2008<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Earth Hour 2008 is coming on March 29 and is a great community based event to participate in to help the fight against global warming\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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