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- Took place on March 29, 2008
- 24 major international cities participatedOfficial Site: Earth Hour
- Notable participants: Australia, Manila, Dubai, Dublin, New York City, Chicago and San FranciscoTIME: Earth Hour '08 - Did It Matter? (March 27, 2008)
- India made no official plans to participate, and was criticized in the pressTimes of India: Earth Hour '08 - An Hour of Difference (March 29, 2008)
- Supported by music artists including Blue Man Group, Fall Out Boy and Nelly Furtado
- First Earth Hour took place in Sydney, Australia in 2007Official Site: Earth Hour
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Earth Hour 2008 was a worldwide event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. Going by their local time, people were encouraged to turn off the lights in their home for one hour at 8PM on March 29. The gesture was supposed to symbolize individual commitment to global solutions for climate change.
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Criticism
Critics of the event argued that no matter how global a scale, shutting off the lights for one hour will do nothing to impact carbon footprints in any negligible way.TIME: Earth Hour '08 - Did It Matter? (March 27, 2008)
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Earth Hour 08 Questions
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Circumference of the Earth? 2 AnswersThe circumference of the earth is 40,075 kilometers or 24,901 miles. http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/circumference-of-the-earth/ read more -
Distance from earth to the sun? 3 AnswersThe earth is between 146 and 152 million kilometers the sun, or between 91 and 94.5 million miles. read more -
Does the earth mantle convect in two layers? 1 AnswerYes the earth mantle convects into two layers,but there is a third layer mentioned. 1.The upper mantle 2.The lower mantle 3.D" layer(Core–mantle boundary) --... read more -
From the vantage point of a photon, how old is The Universe if 120 years is equal to .8666 of a 24-hour day? 2 AnswersSince gauge bosons don't have consciousness, its kind of irrelavent how old it would percieve the universe. But say John Photon, being light, is traveling at li... read more
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