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The Las Vegas Strip is the best place to do a lot of things. It’s arguably the worst place in the world to stargaze. On Saturday night at 8:30, that will change for an hour. Lights around the world will be darkened for Earth Hour 2011. It’s an event designed to heighten environmental awareness. It’s a single hour of a single day, once a year. “Earth Hour is a great symbolic gesture,” explains Scott Rutledge, executive director of the Nevada Conservation League. “For people to see the lights go off on the Strip, it’s quite a spectacle. But if they...

In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour. Here is my response. I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity. Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to...

Earth Hour: A Dissent Ross McKitrick In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour. Here is my response. I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity. Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing,...

It’s unclear how many GTA homes will partake in turning off their lights to honour Earth Hour Saturday. But don’t count in the Menzies in the collective, self-imposed blackout! “We will not be in the dark,” journalist and conservative commentator David Menzies said Thursday. Instead, what you will find is a giant beacon in the sky emanating from his Richmond Hill street between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. “While everybody else has their lights off I will have every light in my house on,” said Menzies, as he prepared for his second installment in mocking the “phony” Earth Hour movement. He’s...

AS well-intentioned gestures go, Earth Hour is hard to beat. At 8.30pm on Saturday, March 27, nearly a billion people in more than 120 countries demonstrated their desire to do something about global warming by switching off their lights for an hour. Earth Hour is surely one of the most successful publicity stunts to be dreamed up. First organised in Sydney in 2007 by the local chapter of the WWF, its popularity and the level of participation that generates has exploded in recent years, to the point that there is barely a corner of the earth that the campaign hasn't...

As many of you know Saturday night from 8:30-9:30 was “Earth Hour,” in which we were asked to turn off lights and electronic devices in order to “live naturally.” Here’s an excerpt from the website www.earthhour.org: Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm (local time) and is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to Asia to the Americas will...

For years, I’ve heard supposed libertarians pontificating about low-taxes, on the one hand, while supporting welfare-dependent drug addicts, on the other. Which begs the question: Are the media’s favourite libertarian thinkers, Alzheimer’s victims or fifth columnists? Take Reason magazine – and let’s revisit 2008. Before the last election, Peter Bagge a Reason contributing editor was asked which way he was swinging. The libertarian-minded elitist pontificated: If the polls in my home state are close: Obama (McCain is simply too incompetent these days to be president). If not, I’ll make a protest vote for Barr. And how did that work out?...

Jakarta’s main thoroughfares, offices, public buildings and residences generally kept their electricity on, ignoring the call to switch off power between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. to mark global Earth Hour on Saturday night. Despite expectations of increased participation from building managers and households for the 2010 Earth Hour, buildings and billboard lights along Jl. Sudirman and Jl. Thamrin remained brightly lit. The landscape of the city was as bright as usual, with hotels, apartments, high-rise buildings, and houses of worship carrying on as usual. Only a few buildings switched off their lights, including the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry...

<p>In celebration of electricity and how much everyone appreciates this marvelous invention, cities across the world have been turning off their lights for one hour starting at 8:30 pm tonight (check your local TV listings). Clutching candles as the only means of light, earthlings learn to appreciate the only source of light before the invention of electric light. The cost to commerce and personal income from the hour long event can be fully appreciated in the video below when the electricity goes off.</p>

As many of you know Saturday night from 8:30-9:30 was “Earth Hour,” in which we were asked to turn off lights and electronic devices in order to “live naturally.” Here’s an excerpt from the website www.earthhour.org: Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm (local time) and is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to Asia to the Americas will...

Once again, a useless gesture carries more weight, gets more publicity, and garners more enthusiasm and adulation than the actual daily practicing of what is being preached for an hour. In other words, style over substance.

LONDON - Europe's best known landmarks — including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum — fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event. In the United States, the lights went out at the Empire State Building in New York, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, among many other sites in the Eastern time zone.

Sorry for the vanity post, but please join me in turning every light on in your house, your neighborhood, your out houses or whatever. What better way to celebrate EARTH HOUR? The "progressives" would love us to live in their 12th century vision of Utopia, let's show them what we think. Let's vow to make next year one these communist, Marxist, pseudo environmentalist will never forget. Drill, baby, Drill but in the meantime burn a few bucks to annoy them!

Earth Hour Alert: at 8:30 PM (your time) turn on ALL your lights. In honor of Earth Hour, I am asking All willing Freepers to turn on All your lights, turn up your heat and turn on the a/c to cool it down, due a few loads of wash, start up every computer, make a few loaves of bread in the bread machine...if you have one, put a spot light in your yard. It is my understanding that the success or lack of it will be measured by how much electric wattage was used in that hour and satellite pictures...

Between the hours of 8:30 PM and 9:30 PM, I will be observing Earth Hour in a Conservative fashion that would make Thomas Edison smile with excitement and wonderment. In short, all the lights that are never on during the Night; will be bright and shining tonight! Call it a peasants revolt, because I refuse to submit to Al Gore proposals.

"The 'red hour' marked the beginning of the festival on Beta III, during the governance of Landru. ("The Return of the Archons")" http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Red_hour ____________________________________ "The U.S.S. Enterprise is investigating Beta III, where the U.S.S. Archon disappeared over 100 years before. When the landing party exhibits strange behavior, Kirk sends another party down to investigate. They find the culture on Beta III is quiescent, with no creative tendencies. The entire culture is controlled by a group of 'lawgivers' known as "The Body" which is, in turn, controlled by the omniscient Landru. The inhabitants change from normal, peaceful people to a violent...

Tonight at 8:30PM (irrespective of time zones) you can celebrate Earth Hour with occultists, elitists, envirofascists, and the easily-led around the world by turning off all your lights for one hour. This will, logically enough, help us to "save" the Earth from the evil capitalists, earth destroyers, and, one presumes, possibly even from former president George Bush. Of course we should all want to do our part. It's the right thing to do. The net result of attaching an enviro-morality to silly acts like turning off your lights for an hour of group-think and meditation may not be obvious to...

GOODFIELD — At 8:29 p.m. Saturday, Leslie Friederich and her sons Tristan, 9, and Luka, 7, plan to run around the boys' grandma's house turning off all the lights. They'll then crank up the flashlights and light some candles, and the family will play board games together for about an hour. The Friederich family is one of millions of families around the world expected to turn off lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday central time for the third annual Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a global campaign of the World Wildlife Fund and is sponsored in Illinois by ComEd....

Tonight, at the behest of several well-known Green Messiahs such as nutjob David Suzuki and with the encouragement of the public relations departments of multinational corporations, humans all across the world will get in touch with their inner Gore and soothe their eco-guilt by finally solving the climate change problem… …by turning off lights?

he Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading free-market think tank, will celebrate the Second Annual “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Saturday, March 27, 2010. The one-hour celebration coincides with “Earth Hour,” an hour in which governments, individuals, and corporations will dim or shut off lights to symbolically renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology. “Earth Hour’s creators suggest that human inventions and technology are a problem, but we see the ability to create and innovate as the ultimate resource,” says Human Achievement Hour founder and CEI Policy Analyst Michelle Minton. “Environmental challenges will not be solved by turning...