Earth Hour rally Friday at City Hall
March 26, 2008 at 10:32 am by Thomas Wheatley in NewsThe Night Atlanta Goes Dark is fast approaching. Throughout the city limits, Ryder and U-Haul trucks sit idling in driveways, tailgates open to reveal the bare necessities of families rushing to flee the coming shadow that will blanket the city. Manic street preachers shriek about the End of Days. Chaos is to come.
Whoa. Sorry, forgot this wasn’t my post-Apocalyptic blog. But really, on Friday at 11:30 a.m., Mayor Shirley Franklin will host an Earth Hour rally at City Hall. Joined by representatives from Creaxion, the firm organizing the worldwide shut-off of lights to raise awareness about global warming, as well as the city’s director of the Sustainable Atlanta initiative, Franklin will call for residents and businesses to participate this Saturday by powering down 8-9 p.m. Much of the city’s skyline will go dark. Georgia Power will monitor electricity usage during the event and word is that NASA will be snapping photos from way up high. We may not look like North Korea, but it’ll be interesting to see nonetheless.
If you plan to attend and don’t want to wait until Saturday to go easy on the environment, consider using MARTA to get downtown. To chart the best possible route from anywhere in the city, click here.
For more information about Earth Hour and to see the list of participating businesses and buildings, click here.
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