Sunday, March 28, 2010

Daylight Peeks Back at Last Night's Earth Hour

 A day later, in the light of day, the Earth Hour numbers start coming in.
  • On the Supporter map on Earth Hour's website, 5,665,278 supporters signed up world-wide. (http://www.earthhour.org/SupportersMap.aspx)  
  •  Earth Hour's Facebook fans numbered 338,816 followers
  • 126 countries/regions including over 4,000 cities/towns/municipalities on all 7 of the continents took part in the hour of darkness to support climate change.
  • 1,387 iconic landmarks diminished their lights (like the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids at Gaza, and The Sydney Opera House)
And from http://earthhour.panda.org/photos/category/participation, here are just a smattering of the countries/cities connected based solely on the photos that were uploaded. What a global smorgasbord! Click on any of the names below to go to those pics!

Abu Dhabi * ALBANIA * Albany * Amman * Amsterdam * Antananarivo * ARGENTINA * ARMENIA * ATHENS * Atlanta * Auckland * Australia * B.C.S. * Baja California Sur * Bandar Seri Begawan * Beijing * Belfast * BOLIVIA *Brasília * BRAZIL * brighton * Brisbane * BRUNEI DARUSSALAM * Bucharest *Buenos Aires * BULGARIA * Busan * Cairo * Campo Grande * Canada * CANCUN * Cape Town * Capetown * cardiff * Casablanca * Celje * Central * Chatham Islands * Chengdu *Chiang Mai * Chicago * China * Colombo * Curitiba * CYPRUS * Druskininkai * Dubai * Dunedin * ECUADOR * Edinburgh * EGYPT * EL SALVADOR * ESTONIA * Falkirk * Fiji * Forbidden City * France * Fujairah * Garapan * Glasgow * GREECE * GUATEMALA * Guatemala City * Guayaquil * Halifax * Hamilton * Hiroshima * Hong Kong * INDIA * INDONESIA * INVERNESS * İstanbul * ITALY * Jakarta * JAPAN *JORDAN * Khon Khen * KhonKhen * Kiev * KOREA * KOSOVO * La Antigua Guatemala * La Paz * LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC * Las Vegas * LATVIA * Lima * Lithuania * London * Los Angeles * MADAGASCAR * Madrid * Melbourne * Mexico * Mexico City * MOROCCO * Moscow * NETHERLANDS * new delhi * New York City * New Zealand * Niagara Falls * Nicosia * NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS * NORWAY * Oslo * Ottawa * Paris * Patras * Perth * PERU * PLURINATIONAL STATE OF * Pristina * Puerto Ayora Santa Cruz Galapagos * PUERTO RICO * Quito * Riga * Rincon * ROMANIA * Rome * RUSSIAN FEDERATION * SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS * san salvador * Santa Cruz * Santa Cruz Galapagos * Scotland * Seattle * Sheffield * Singapore * SLOVENIA * Sofia * South Africa * Spain * SRI LANKA * St Andrews * St. Louis * Stockholm * Suva * SWEDEN *SWITZERLAND * Sydney * Tartu * THAILAND * Thessaloniki * Tokyo * Toronto * Tsim Sha Tsui * TURKEY * UKRAINE * UNITED ARAB EMIRATES * United Kingdom * United States * Vancouver * Velenje * Vientiane * Washington DC * Wellington * Yerevan * Zuerich * Zurich
 
(The view from our house, Earth Hour 2010.)

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