Earth Hour set for 8:30 pm Saturday, March 28th 2009
This will be the first year that Nashville will participate along with over 1500 cities and 80 countries to turn off their lights, water heaters, unplug computers and appliances and lower heat so that it doesn’t come on for one hour beginning at 8:30 pm.
Local businesses and landmarks are set to participate. Neighborhoods from Belleview to East Nashville have signed up. And parties downtown have been organized to watch the city go dark.
The Predators vs the LA Kings, game has been rescheduled to 5:30 pm. Festivities will kickoff outside the Sommet Center with Jo Dee Messina. The game should be over by 7:30pm in time for the lights to go out.
Jack's Bar-B-Que owner Jack Cawthon will turn off the neon Three Little Pigs which has never been turned off before in their almost 15 years. Most locals and tourists know the famous Pigs over Broadway sign. Brenda and Ruble Sanderson, owners of the Stage and 3 other honky-tonks were some of the first businesses to jump on board. Plan to spend time with them Saturday evening!
IF all of Nashville participated it would save enough electricity to power 1230 homes for one month.
Organized by World Wildlife Fund, the worlds largest multinational conservation organization, Earth Hours is to bring awareness to the public about energy conservation and global warming. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sidney, Australia. Leslie Aun, WWF’s managing director of Earth Hour.
Fifty million people on all seven continents turned off their lights for one hour last March. The 2008 movement is perfectly summed up in this three-minute video set to Augie March's stand-out song "One Crowded Hour."
Other cities participating are Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Miami, London, Paris, Delhi, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro and Rome. This is just to name a few!
Chicago participated last year when 2.7 million customers turned off their lights for 1 hour. The electric company said that the savings for just one hour was 7 percent or an equivalent of taking 7 million cars off the road for an hour.
This Saturday join Me and Prudential Woodmont Realty and turn off your lights for EARTH HOUR 8:30pm for one hour.
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Connie Harvey is a full time Realtor selling Nashville Real Estate in both Davidson and Williamson Counties.
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