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Go dark for a good cause
Earth Hour wants the world to turn off its lights
by Lacey Storer
Friday, March 27, 2009

Have you heard about Earth Hour? Organized by the World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour is one hour during the last Saturday of March (that'd be tomorrow) where everyone is supposed to shut off all of their non-essential lights and appliances. The aim to raise awareness about global warming and the action that needs to take place to change our climate.

This year's Earth Hour will take place at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. But if you absolutely need to have the lights on during that time, I say make the effort to go dark for an hour any time during the day. My suggestion is to stay in bed an extra hour tomorrow morning (and if the snow storm hits, what else do you have to do?).

For more information on Earth Hour, visit www.earthhour.org.

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goobentrot March 27, 2009 at 6:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

So the earth is warming up. Can'tsay I would be too upset if the coast of California went under water.

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BCotter March 28, 2009 at 9:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)

It's 30 degrees and raining/sleeting/snowing outside and it's a few days from April. Take your global warming garbage somewhere else. We need to warm this place up - you guys are freezing us to death.

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trish March 28, 2009 at 11:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I am protesting this piece of garbage! I am turning everyone of my lights on in my house between 8:30 and 9:30. This is the biggest hoax being concocted by our idiotic government to cause fear mongering! I am sick of it! Get a grip! We are freezing to death!

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Mr_America March 30, 2009 at 12:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I turn off all of my lights every night for about 8 hours in honor of common sense.

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