Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event that takes place tonight. The grassroots organization is encouraging the city of San Francisco to turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. Additonially they will distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the city.
Lights Out San Fran is just one of 11 cities participating in the upcoming Lights Out America on March 29, 2008. (Check out: www.www.lightsoutamerica.org for more info.)Orgnaizers are encouraging Americans to turn off non-essential lightning for one hour to conserve energy.
Ottawa, and the rest of Canada, should follow this group’s lead and organize something similar. Correct me, if this is already happening somewhere in Canada that I don’t know about.