[Photo by Ellen Banner of the Seattle Times, until I can get mine up]
So, a friend and I went up to Kerry Park here in Seattle to take some before and after pictures of Seattle. Big let down. If you don't know, Earth Hours is where cities around the world turn off their lights from 8:30-9:30PM local time. Also, if you don't know, Kerry Park is the spot to take pictures of Seattle, you have the Space Needle and Mt. Rainier in background (during the day). It is where all those famous postcard pictures are taken of Seattle. Anyway, at 8:30 the Space Needle went dark, that was about it. I think the Wa-Mu tower was dark, but I think they started that way as it looked dark when we got there around 8PM. Pretty lame attempt at Earth Hour for a city that is suppose to be really green.
Besides, I froze my butt off up there standing by my tripod that hour we were there....
I wonder how I can post some pics of Seattle Earth Hour here?
ReplyDeleteI saw a similar scene on a blog of Toronto. The problem is, there's nobody in all of those buildings. It's Saturday night and all of those lights were left on Friday night when people left work -- there was nobody there to turn the lights off at 8:30.
ReplyDeleteHi Deej, yes, I figured that is why the Washington Mutual tower was dark early. Someone figured out that they just didn't want to come back on a Saturday night and turn the lights out, so they just did it when they left for the weekend. Too bad really, nice idea and good way to motivate the general public. Seeing a whole city go dark, along with all the stars and other heavenly sights come out, would be pretty powerful.
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