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To: longnshort who wrote (330872)	3/31/2007 12:16:11 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572956

Why am I showing two bedposts? Think about it.

To: longnshort who wrote (330872)	3/31/2007 12:17:51 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572956

Australia's largest city dims lights to fight global warming Last Updated: Saturday, March 31, 2007 \| 10:40 AM ET CBC News Businesses and homeowners in Sydney, Australia, switched off their lights for an hour Saturday night to draw attention to global warming. The normally gleaming white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened, so did the iconic Harbour Bridge and chunks of the city's skyline. The main lights that illuminate the Harbour Bridge were turned off in Sydney on Saturday in the city's bid to draw attention to global warming. (Paul Miller/Associated Press) More than 2,000 companies and 60,000 households signed up to participate in what was dubbed Earth Hour, supported by environmentalists, business leaders, city officials and the New South Wales state government. "Tonight is a call to action," said Mayor Clover Moore, whose officials shut down all non-essential lights on city-owned buildings. "We all have to act to reduce our ecological footprint." It took a few minutes for the effect to take hold as buildings went dark at slightly different times. Some floors in city skyscrapers remained lit, and security and street lights, those at commercial port operations and at a sports stadium, stayed on. While downtown was significantly darker than normal, the overall effect, as seen in television footage from overhead helicopters, was that the city's patchwork of millions of tiny lights had thinned, not disappeared. Continue Article cbc.ca