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Earth Hour Photos Highlight Problem of Light Pollution

There’s been a lot of disagreement, even among environmentalists, about how effective Earth Hour really is in sending a message about the need to fight global warming. But regardless of whether you feel it’s an important and powerful symbolic act or think it does more harm than good, one thing is clear when viewing the [...]

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Turn Off the Lights Tonight for Earth Hour 2009

Tonight, March 28th at 8:30pm, you’ll have the opportunity to ‘Vote Earth’ with the flick of a switch. Earth Hour 2009 is a global call to action for every individual, every business and every community to pledge their support for the earth by turning off the lights for one hour. 2,848 cities, towns and municipalities [...]

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I’m Fuc- I Mean, Flicking the Lights Off

Earlier this year, Sarah Silverman took the internet by storm with her hilarious music video, “I’m Fucking Matt Damon”. It was only a matter of time before parodies and copies began showing up, but this one’s got a green twist: it was made to promote Earth Hour, Saturday March 28th at 8:30pm, when millions of [...]

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EarthFirst Blog Week in Review March 24-28

Pub note: We’re a little late posting this, April Fools Day got us all spun around, what can we say.
Last week was just another freak show around here at Earth First. We came down with our own little bout of March Madness and covered all kinds of crazy shit from an insanely talented elephant [...]

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March 29th- Live Blogging Earth Hour: Because Someone Had To

We’re live blogging Earth Hour.

8:10 pm- Ahh…. It’s nice to have the Green Blogosphere all to myself. Treehugger, EcoGeek, GroovyGreen, and WorldChanging are all dark and abandoned ghost towns. I’m sitting in the ol’ living room with all the lights in the house on watching an hour long marathon of Cops. I’m warming my feet [...]

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Sit In the Dark For An Hour To Save the World-Does Earth Hour REALLY Make Sense?

OK, I see the value of the symbolism behind Earth Hour and appreciate the ‘awareness’ it’s raising, but do we really want to be telling everyone that the way to save the planet from ourselves is by sitting in a dark house? Doesn’t the other side accuse us of wanting to push the world back [...]

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