EARTH HOUR - Hamiltonians Waited for Darkness

Excerpted from the Hamilton Spectator online. March 30, 2008 Canadians across the country embraced powerlessness, dining by candlelight, counting stars or swaying in the dark to acoustic music as they marked the country's first Earth Hour. At 8 p.m. local time, enthusiastic participants turned off lights and appliances for the 60-minute event that swept around the globe in what was possibly the world's largest voluntary power outage since the invention of the incandescent bulb. So many people did their part in Ontario that demand for power fell by ..... To read more visit http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/346927