{"id":983,"date":"2010-03-26T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/earth-hour-2010-will-you-turn-out.html"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T10:57:49","slug":"earth-hour-2010-will-you-turn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/earth-hour-2010-will-you-turn-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth Hour 2010: Will You Turn Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour 2010 is upon us &#8211; tomorrow, Saturday, 3\/27 at 8:30 p.m., hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour in hopes of spreading awareness of climate change&#8230;and saving about a gajillion kilowatt hours in electric power (it has to be a gajillion, right?)<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Earth Hour happened in more than 80 countries, 4,100 cities. Las Vegas. Rio de Janeiro.&nbsp; Paris.&nbsp; The American Idol stage.&nbsp; All dark&#8211;at least electronically speaking.&nbsp; What an easy, powerful way to light the world with the power of human passion.<\/p>\n<p>Will you participate?<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e5WYlqD8mR0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e5WYlqD8mR0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"385\" width=\"640\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\" itxtvisited=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\" itxtvisited=\"1\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day<\/strong><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Hour 2010 is upon us &#8211; tomorrow, Saturday, 3\/27 at 8:30 p.m., hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour in hopes of spreading awareness of climate change&#8230;and saving about a gajillion kilowatt hours in electric power (it has to be a gajillion, right?) 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