Aurora Pinkey-Drobnis ’12 from the EAC wrote in to let us all know about Earth Hour on Saturday night…

Earth Hour is a global movement. The main purpose is to spread awareness about climate change and environmental issues. On this Saturday at 8:30, 2,848 cities, towns and municipalities in 84 countries have already committed to turning off their electricity for one hour. While we couldn’t get Skidmore to agree to shutting their buildings down, we were hoping that students at Skidmore would voluntarily shut off their lights. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.