Earth Hour – Daylight Savings Time 8:00 p.m. TOO EARLY in Ontario

It’s a real shame that 8:00 pm was Earth Hour here in Ontario and not 9:00 pm. It would have been wonderful to show many people and cities that there is a universe of beautiful, wonderful stars and galaxies to be seen.

At 8 o’clock it was still so very light out and the sky was blue. At 8:30 I was starting to wonder if the sky would indeed darken before the lights came back on at 9. It was about 8:50 when the sky began to get dark. Not astronomy-loving kind of dark but dark to most people.

However, from this experience, will people cut back and make practical changes to help reduce their individual impact on climate change? Will the idea be remembered year-round?

Hopefully, this is not just another good-cause idea that will fizzle out over time!!.