Earth Hour 2009

Earth Hour is a global event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF Greenwich CT[clarification needed] and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. [source: wikipedia]

2009 Participants:
Albania
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bermuda
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Fiji
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Greenland
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kuwait
Latvia
Malaysia
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Singapore
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam