Earth Hour this Saturday


March 24, 2009 · 2:37 PM

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Earth Hour, a World Wildlife Fund event, will be taking place all over the world on Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 p.m. local time. The Whale Museum is inviting tens of millions of people around the world in turning our electric lights off for one hour as par of the event.

“The event is to remind people that working together they can play a constructive role in addressing the excessive use of energy that threatens climate change and ecological survival,” according to a Whale Museum press release. “The locally endangered Orca whales and the locally endangered Chinook salmon are threatened because of the changes in freshwater river systems, changes in the Salish Sea and changes in the northeast Pacific ocean that derive from our historic patterns of energy consumption.

The Whale Museum’s 116 year old historic building has energy challenges and they are working to

reduce energy consumption year round.

Organizers predict this year's Earth Hour will top the 50 million people who participated from all over the world last year. To date, 700 cities are participating. More information about Earth Hour 2009, is available at www.EarthHourUS.org.

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