Turn out your lights tomorrow night for 1 hour to show support for the Earth Hour campaign. All across the globe, people, businesses, and cities will go dark on Saturday, March 28 from 8:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. local time. Earth Hour is the World Wildlife Fund’s global initiative to show support for action on climate change. Last year, 50 million people across the globe participated in Earth Hour. Not bad for its second year. This year, the campaign hopes 1 billion people will participate in the movement.
So how can this benefit you, the astronomy enthusiast? Well, if your neighbors and nearby businesses turn out their lights, you’ll have an hour of dark(er) sky observing. Unfortunately it looks like a snow storm is coming Milwaukee’s way. So instead of heading outside to look at the sky, I’ll probably play dominoes by candlelight.