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  ‘Earth Hour’ means fighting global climate change by turning lights out on Saturday March 28th            What if everyone in the world turned off all their lights and other electrical applications for just one hour?  An organization called Earth Hour is trying to get us to do just that from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm next Saturday, March 28th, when millions of homes are expected to go dark in what is being called the largest planned power outage in history.  

You can read more about the effort at:  http://www.earthhour.org.

The World Wildlife Fund, an environmental advocacy group, is spearheading the event to raise awareness about power consumption and climate change.

More than 2.2 million people participated in the inaugural Earth Hour in 2007, in which just one city – Sydney, Australia – went dark.  The one-hour outage produced a 10-percent drop in energy use during the hour.

The Sydney event became a global effort last year and 200 cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, Bangkok and Tel Aviv.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Medford, Ashland, Jacksonville and all the cities and towns of Jackson County joined the event this year?

            It’s easy!  All we have to do is turn out the lights, light some candles or go outside and look at the sky for an hour.  It might turn out to be a novel way to spend an hour and you know you’ll be doing something good for the planet.