{"id":746,"date":"2008-03-29T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T18:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/03\/29\/the-lights-go-out-tonight\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:24:52","slug":"the-lights-go-out-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/29\/the-lights-go-out-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"The lights go out tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timblair.net\/ee\/images\/uploads\/shieldyoureyes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Before and after shot of Sydney Australia participating in Earth Hour from this morning (to us). <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight is <a href=\"www.earthhour.org\">Earth Hour<\/a> across the planet and Montreal is taking part. Various cities around the world will turn off the lights for one hour between 8pm and 9pm local time in an effort to raise awareness about emission output caused by overuse of electricity.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/news\/story.html?k=70182&amp;id=c7939ace-ae40-4bb5-80ca-bfab26f5eb67\">story<\/a> in the Gazette explains further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The purpose is to save electricity, cut greenhouse gases and spark dialogue about other ways we can act to save the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;During that hour, we hope that Montrealers will think, talk to one another and figure out other gestures to contribute to a better world for future generations,&#8221; said Alan DeSousa, Montreal executive committee member in charge of sustainable development.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The event is merely symbolic of course, as turning the lights off for one hour isn&#8217;t going to make much of an impact on the grid, however, it will be neat to see the city descend in darkness for an hour.  In Montreal, the cross atop Mont-Royal will be extinguished along with the the floodlights on City Hall and the rotating light on Place Ville-Marie.  I&#8217;ve been told that people are planning on going to the lookout on Mont-Royal tonight to see the lights go out at 8 but anywhere that the skyline can be seen will probably give an excellent view of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before and after shot of Sydney Australia participating in Earth Hour from this morning (to us). Tonight is Earth Hour across the planet and Montreal is taking part. Various cities around the world will turn off the lights for one hour between 8pm and 9pm local time in an effort to raise awareness about emission<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/29\/the-lights-go-out-tonight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The lights go out tonight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7835,7839],"tags":[2117,2116,2118,400,48,918,10,2119,125,1271],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-green-space","category-neighbourhoods","tag-alan-desousa","tag-australia","tag-before-and-after","tag-city-hall-2","tag-downtown","tag-electricity","tag-environment","tag-executive","tag-montreal","tag-sydney"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The lights go out tonight - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/03\/29\/the-lights-go-out-tonight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The lights go out tonight - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before and after shot of Sydney Australia participating in Earth Hour from this morning (to us). 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