An hour of electricity may not mean much for you, but it means a lot to Mother Nature.
City officials asked San Diegans to join the world community in Earth Hour Saturday in saving an hour of energy to help bring awareness about climate change. Last year, San Diegans shut off the power for the hour and saved 75 megawatts. That may not sound like much, but it’s enough to power about 50,000 homes.
Mayor Sanders and Councilwoman Donna Frye are hoping that San Diegans do even better this weekend.
More than 2,800 cities and towns across the globe participated in the hour-long power outage from 8:30-9:30 p.m. (Yes, yes that’s when House was on, but that’s what DVR is for, right? Besides, it was a rerun) in each time zone.
2009 marks the third year of the event, but only the second year that the world community has been involved.
Sydney, Australia started the event in 2007 and 2.2 million homes shut off their power.
According to the organization’s website, the group is hoping to garner 1 billion “votes” or 1/6th of the world population saying “no” to global warming, in an effort to change government policy.
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The Kyoto Protocol, which is an environmental treaty intended to achieve “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere”, is set to expire in 2012.
