Tonight is - dum da da dum! - Earth Hour.
Which means - as Nelly Furtado would say, and will say, at a free concert tonight in Toronto - TURN OUT THE LIGHTS. For one hour. Tonight, starting at eight. The objective is to get as many communities and people around the world reducing their power-use, for just a little while, to what a difference it makes.
Which, cool (and dark, but in the best possible way.)
And as I hinted above, Nelly Furtado is going to kick off the hour with a free! concert! in Toronto:
The partners of Toronto’s Earth Hour today announced that multi-platinum Grammy and Juno Award-winner, and Canada’s own, Nelly Furtado will join Earth Hour as the first Canadian Earth Hour Ambassador. She will also perform a free concert at Nathan Phillips Square on March 29 to celebrate Earth Hour.
As an Earth Hour Ambassador and an advocate for the environment, Nelly Furtado will play an unplugged concert at the Earth Hour community event, starting at 7:30 p.m. The organizers are taking steps to make the event as carbon-neutral as possible - including powering the event with green, renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. People from across the GTA are invited to attend.
As I've said elsewhere, it really is awesome that they're making it carbon-neutral and unplugged and all, but I still don't get how it's going to be a particularly effective concert with all the lights out. I mean, will there be candles? Isn't that a fire hazard? Or will Nelly just light everything up with the glow of her own fabulousness?
Whatever. Wherever you are, bust out the candles and the organic wine and make this your night for eco-friendly romance.
Do it for the children.
More details on Earth Hour HERE. Earth Hour Canada: HERE.
I wish that we had had some sort of gathering here in Ottawa, especially one that was family-friendly. We ended up reading by candlelight. I had hoped to look at the stars but the light pollution was too great.
Posted by: MomOnTheGo | March 30, 2008 at 07:10 AM