Earth Hour in Singapore 2009.

At 8pm on the 28th March 2009, millions of people in some of the world's major capital cities, including Melbourne, Manila, Shanghai, Toronto, New York, Copenhagen, Singapore will unite and switch off the power for Earth Hour.

This year Singapore will be part of this global effort organised by the WWF to attempt at making a statement in energy conservation. Apparently MacDonald in Singapore do it in a big way this year by going as far as switching off all the lights for 1 hour. The efforts in 1 hour on 1 day reduced Singapore's energy consumption by 10.2% for 1 hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking around 48k cars off the road for 1 hour.

Earth hour is not the only such effort in the world where you have Light out of America in various cities in the US and Candle Night Project in Japan and Taiwan.

Now Singapore's government is calling for more people and businesses from Singapore to be involved in Earth Hour and get them to turn off their lights for 1 hour at 8.30pm, 28th March 2009. In fact, their efforts even appeared in the press today!!! So dont surprised when the light of Singapore's Suntec City is going to turn off. There's no black out. It's Earth Hour.