this sounds really cool and I would like to participate. :) I went to Eastwood myself and think its really great that you are involved with this stuff for a project.

this sounds awesome! i live in the indy area and would be happy to help you guys! great idea!

I also am very interested in this project and would like to help if i can. I think this is a terrific idea.

this looks splendid, i would love to try this any time, but we don’t turn off all the electronics do we?

no, we wouldn’t have people turn off appliances like refrigerators if they didn’t want to

okay thanks for the clarification!

Isn’t this just soo wonderful, it gives me the heebie-jeebies!

awesome idea! everyone should do this!!

my ps3 uses 5 times more energy than my fridge maybe i should turn that off

Earth Hour for 2010 is something that we at the Amos W. Butler Audubon Society will be promoting. We would be eager to work together with you to help promote the event. Earth Hour in 2010 will be Saturday, March 27 between 8pm and 9pm (sunset at 8:04pm). We are interested in Earth Hour because it ties into our own initiative named Lights Out Indy (lightsoutindy.org). Lights Out Indy is an effort to get building owners and managers in Indianapolis, primarily downtown, to reduce the amount of unnecessary lighting between midnight and dawn during peak migration months. Urban lighting confuses nocturnal migrating songbirds and thousands of them are killed by flying into windows, which they do not perceive as an obstacle. The start of peak spring migration is April 1 so Earth Hour dovetails nicely with our Lights Out efforts. Our website has much more information and includes photos of just some of the dead birds we have found downtown during 2009. The issue is not readily noticeable to people downtown because one of the first things maintenance does in the morning is to clean up the dead and injured birds around their building.

Don Gorney
President, Amos W. Butler Audubon Society
Coordinator, Lights Out Indy

alright, that sounds good. i’m glad that you’re interested.

I agree this would be a great for us to work together on this project.

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i thin k that this is a really good i dea! when would we have to turn our stuff off? could it not be on monday so i can still watch foot ball. no staurdays either so i can watch college games!

We will schedule Earth Hour in such a way that people will be willing to turn off their appliances at that time. But, yeah. You’ll have to turn almost everything (except refrigerators and things relating to that) to conserve energy. Great question.

great