Dim the Lights, Save the Earth

The famous New York City skyline burned a little less bright this past Saturday night.

To celebrate this year’s Earth Hour, a host of buildings and other structures across the city dimmed their lights on Saturday, March 27 from 8:30 to 9:30 pm in support of action against climate change.

Empire State Building, by SaucySalad via Flickr

Among the popular landmarks that went dark for Earth Hour were:

• Empire State Building
• Times Square (including the huge neon signs for Thomson Reuters, Nasdaq, Chase and Coca-Cola)
• Broadway theater marquees
• United Nations headquarters
• City Hall
• Brooklyn Bridge
• New York Public Library

Organized by the World Wildlife Fund and begun in Australia in 2007, Earth Hour this year involved an estimated 100 billion people around the world.