Earth Hour in Fanwood

Turn out, Take Action!

The Fanwood Environmental Commission urges you to turn your lights off for one hour on March 27th between 8:30-9:30pm and join the Borough of Fanwood and a growing list of supporting communities that are committing to take a stand by turning the lights out on pollution and creating a cleaner, safer and more secure future. The Borough of Fanwood made a proclamation earlier this month to be a part of this global event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They will be turning off lights at the Borough Town Hall, Carriage House, and all non-essential lighting in town for Earth Hour, and encourage their residents to do the same.

Earth Hour, which takes place Saturday, March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time, is an event in which millions of Americans and more around the world will turn out their lights for one hour. 2010 marks the third year of the event, which attracted more than 80 million participants in the U.S. last year, and nearly a billion people around the world, as lights dimmed on such global icons as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Sydney's Opera House, the Great Pyramids of Gaza and New York's Empire State Building. 

Notable U.S. landmarks such as Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, St. Louis' Gateway Arch, Sea World in Orlando, the strip in Las Vegas, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Washington D.C.'s National Cathedral, California's Santa Monica Pier and the Space Needle in Seattle are among the hundreds of sites that will turn off non-essential lighting for the hour, in what is expected to be the largest-ever call to action on climate change.

This is your opportunity to participate in a positive action for your environment. So flip that switch, and be the change! Visit www.fanwoodec.org and follow the Earth Hour link for more information.