Earth Hour 2009: Your Vote Counts

Earth Hour began for the first time in Sydney in 2007. On that day 2.2 million homes and business turned their lights of for an hour. In 2008, it had grown to a global sustainibility movement where 50 million people switched off their lights.

Now in 2009, Earth Hour is not only a way to save energy, but it is a vote to help keep our planet alive.

Turning off your light is a vote for saving the earth, and keeping them on is a vote for globing warming. The target for today's Earth Hour is 1 billion votes. This number will be presented to Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. "This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol"

You don't have to be a treehugger or an eco-freak to help, just turn off your lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm and enjoy looking at the stars in candlelight. Every vote counts in helping to save our one and only home, Planet Earth.

Learn more at Earth Hour.