Once again, our family took part in celebrating 'Earth Hour.' For the past few years we have made the commitment to "turn off our lights" for an hour joining hundreds of millions of people around the globe. Usually we go as far as just flipping the breaker in the basement. The kids are in bed well before 8:30 pm, and we sit by the fire in the wood stove, and read by candlelight. We already try to make a difference for the planet in our daily lives, and Earth Hour is so simple.
So I was actually curious...how much CO2 was prevented from entering the atmosphere? Ontario, Canada actually calculated it after Earth Hour 2011. Turning off the lights for an hour made the electric use fall by 2.1% or 360 megawatt hours. This saved the city of Ontario almost $25,000, not to mention 248 metric tons of CO2 being emitted!
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