{"id":685,"date":"2010-02-26T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-02-26T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:07:22","slug":"all-lights-out-for-earth-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"All Lights Out for Earth Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Heather Clancy, SMART PLANET, February 25, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dreamstime_9955489.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"dreamstime_9955489\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dreamstime_9955489\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dreamstime_9955489_thumb.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a> The World Wild Fund is reporting that 19 state and 48 U.S. cities have pledged to turn off their lights for one hour at 8:30 p.m. local time on March 27, 2010. (We\u2019re talking the governments of these cities; they aren\u2019t going to FORCE an outage or anything.)<\/p>\n<p>This will be the third annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myearthhour.org\/home\">Earth Hour<\/a> event, which apparently inspired about 80 million people in the United States alone to participate last year. Here\u2019s some more information in the form of the organization\u2019s official video. It is especially cool to see lights going dim in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>   <object width=\"475\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e5WYlqD8mR0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"475\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e5WYlqD8mR0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>    <\/p>\n<p>So far, here are the states that have committed officially: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. (That\u2019s three times the number that participated last year.) <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Wild Fund is holding its third Earth Hour on March 27th at 8:30 pm. Last year 80 million Americans participated. This year, 19 states are officially enrolled &#8212; so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[287,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}