Earth Hour was held internationally yesterday at 8pm local time. Households and businesses were asked to minimize non-essential electricity consumption.
I don't want to leap to conclusions on the basis of subjective impressions, but judging from the blazing lights I saw in Tallinn, I get the feeling that a lot of people saw it as a good excuse to make the transition to summer time a little early -- and turn clocks one hour forward at 8pm, to skip the damn thing.
Or that they just skipped it.
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To be honest, I'd never even heard of Earth Hour before I read your post. Was anything done in Tallinn to get the word out?
It was pretty big over here in Toronto, the city even organized a concert with Nelly Furtado (not sure if she had lights?). I think Tallinn did not officially take part (surprise, surprise).
Before and after pic of the city here:
http://www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/EarthHour/article/407225
Nice. And still plenty of light to see by.
I thought about going up to the top of the Radisson and taking some pics.
I'm not sure if the local greens really promoted it.
Probably more of a G8 club thing.
Anyway, if you were an ecoradical, you would justifiably argue that it is just lip service.
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