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Sydney Organizes World’s First Climate Change Blackout

11:38 AM EDT on March 27, 2007

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Reported on Yahoo news:

Australia's largest city will be plunged into darknessfor an hour on Saturday in an attempt at a world first blackout toraise awareness of global warming, organisers say.

A successful switch-off could then be copied by major cities around theworld in a drive to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions blamed forclimate change, according to international conservation group WWF.

A thousand businesses have signed up, including many of the topblue-chip companies on the Australian stock market -- and evenMcDonald's is going to turn off its "Golden Arches" signs.

Photo: vm1757/Flickr

Jason Varone
Jason Varone battles the streets everyday during a 9 mile commute on his bicycle from downtown Brooklyn to the Upper East Side. In addition to his efforts on Streetsblog, he is an artist making work related to the environment and technology. Examples of his work can be found at www.varonearts.org.

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