Despite global communications reaching every nook and corner of the world, many people are not aware what is happening around them. Most of the politicians around the world are either ignorant or complacent to what is happening around them. This ignorance is complex and the earth-hour is a miniscule attempt to illumine the ignorant. Rabindranth Tagore said 'do not blame the darkness around you but try to light a small, however small it might be, lamp'. This dark hour is such an attempt to light up the dark side of human activities that ultimately harm all humans if not by thermo nuclear explosions.

COOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can't explain with words. great.

I THINK NOW, NO REGRETS IF THE MY LIFE COMES TO END AFTER SEEING THE SENCE OF AWARENESS. I WOULD CONSIDER THIS MY TRIP TO WORLD AS MOST SUCCESSFUL ....

I like it

This was really beautiful. I am ashamed of toronto and I live here.

i can't believeit. so beautiful

you can see the things better than any other photographer whom I've visited so far

Thanks for the useful info. It's so interesting

amazing photos......
i can't explain with words.

EXCEPTIONAL - wonder what it will look like 50 years from now? Wish this email goes to everyone so that this image is not destroyed by politics & greed but is improved upon. GOD BLESS

EXERETIKO-EXCELLENT

Nicely done :>

IT is more beautiful exception with others.I am so pleasure to see this pictures. thank you all.

Goes to show - UNITED we can do it. Even if it comes to fighting GLOBAL WARMING!! Wish we had more voluntary EARTH HOURS coming up- will help mankind in a big way.

this is the most wonderful things i have ever seen on this site

those all are very nice
Thanks

Fantastic....
Global warming vs US

Superb. Thinking how all this is happening.

Excellent photos...

super....no words to discribe...amasing..........
marvelos..........................realy greate.............................

Global warming? What a joke. Humans are not the cause of it, nor are their machines. Mars warms at the same rate Earth does. Hell.. if you think of it Plants would rather have a carbon dioxide rich environment and lots of warm! You guys are morons to think that global warming is done by us.

Cities all over the world did this and yet, here in Los Angeles, only one STRUCTURE participated! How shameful is THAT?!?!?!??!?

these pictures are amazing...awesome work...this was great. i never knew this happened....awesome

amaizing places!
this are breathtaking pics ......love this countries ....

Mind Blowing Pics :)

Earth hour must be every day ...we have to do this every day ....to SAVE OUR PLANET!!!!! very nice pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is the most wonderful things i have ever seen on internet

AMAZING

Nature"s bounty to be admired and understood. There is no end to man's endeavour to seek new things which are hidden. Glory to Man, this includes women too please.

this is hoppless! we the simple people we want to changes thinks BUT all the goverments and the industrail areas that are the actuall merderers of our planets they didnt shutdown their factories not even for 1 second!!!!!!

if all the factories that produce corbon diaoxyde and all the fires and the illigal pohising and all the non perpuse movents of the cars was stopped just for 1 hour every day they could reduce our polution a lot more thatn just 1 hour of few buildings!!!!!

they are toying with us they are trying to make as feel quilty and that we alone can stop it, when they are getting reacher and reacher every minuete and they dont understand that all the money on earth will not save them when they will not have EARTH to leave on!

the human race must wake up NOW and find drastical solutions and not playing arroudn with few lights!

Please Save the power to the highest possiblity that u Can !!!

Wow,Brilliant capturing!
This doesnt end with the initiative...this has to sustain in order to serve the purpose...

it is really amazing and awesome......

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enjoyable picture

AMAZING TO SEE

SOMETHING SPECTACULAR !!

Im love it..

These before/after photos highlight astounding differences. However I'm a little annoyed by skimming the comments that "global warming" has been solidified into the catch all term for anything to do with the earth’s climate, human energy use, problems with industry, global climate CHANGE (a combination of man-made and naturally occurring cycles and phenomenon), pollution, industrial inefficiency and waste management issues.

The public attention becomes fixated on this show rather than funding, building and maintaining “boring” projects and real world solutions such as: desalination plants, the newest hydrocarbon exploration and extraction technology, nuclear plants, sewage treatment plants, waste cycling, waste storage and waste disposal, cleaner mineral and metal mining (you can’t have “clean” tech (or ANY tech) without these), flood zone urban engineering, urban food growth and farming.

Instead we get focused on a global show. It’s a pretty cool show but please do not forget that this is a performance piece. A powerful one (pun intended) and hopefully one that will inspire some people to look deeper at our planet , the resources available and our industry (it’s benefits and not just the negatives) rather than swallow the simplistic “save our planet” ideas thrown about.

It’s NOT “save our planet” kids, that’s what you learned in kindergarten (or the international equivalent you did or did not attend) The truth of what we (and all past and present human generations) are faced with is “Save humanities quality of life” and "global warming" has precious little to do with it.

On one hand I would love to see this trend keep up at least for the sake of minimizing light pollution. I'd love to see the hour become one global night for astronomy ; allowing those in urban and densely populated areas to reconnect with the night. That would be so rich and rewarding, more than the throngs of uninformed people saying "Look! I’m fighting global warming by turning off my desk lamp!" and telling their neighbors that they are killing the planet by not participating in this earth hour.

On the other hand I wonder and I also fear a little; how many of the organizers and pressure pushers would like to enact legislation that prevents people from using “unnecessary” electricity at all times, or plastic, gas, water even food. Such legislation already exists and has existed in multiple areas around the globe for various reasons. And it has rarely worked out the way those with good intentions had hoped it would.

Awesome photos but I’m left a little worried. I'm worried about who is going to be doing the defining of what is "unnecessary". I'm worried about what and how much will be seen as unnecessary. Finally, I'm worried for whom.

Does anyone else think these places look better without so much glare...???

excellent man!!! keep u p dgood job

gr8!!!

The act is so noble. If the Governments can do it why not Individuals and why only once a year - let this be the rule or law once every month to start and make this into a habit. Good Luck and thanks for your efforts to bring about awareness

The cities are still wonderful even without lights!!!!!
Hope to see these pictures again!

A very MARVELLOUS and WONDERFULL job. Really ROCKING!!!!!!!!! superrrrrrrrbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb .....

No impact on our planet just a visual stimulation. The one true God has
not limited our use of what he placed here for our use. If you don't understand
that the one responsible for our climate knew what "they" were doing then
how must you reason what is to happen next. It is a wonderment to trust in
something like we are asked to live our lives in. Earth has been (changing)
for many many years and we've been here such a few....relax, we will be fine.

GOD HAS DONE JUSTICE IN CREATING THE WORLD. SO, WE HIS CREATION MUST ALSO WORK TO RETAIN HIS CREATION.

Si fue posible ponerse de acuerdo entre ciudades tan lejanas entre sí, para apagar las luces a una hora determinada, creo que de la misma manera es también posible que todo el mundo logre un acuerdo para proteger nuestro planeta del daño que los mismos seres humanos estamos provocando, por ejemplo, usando bolsas reutilizables para ir de compras al supermercado.

Here in Germany they told us not to participate in this event since power plants always have to calculate an estimated energy use and that a sudden unexpected drop in energy use could damage the power plants. If this would happen, the repairation of the plants would actually use up more energy then the amount that was saved by turning the lights off. Even though I haven't heard that this happened somewhere.

There are a few unfortunate facts about efforts such as this. Like the myth of global warming (the planet has actually cooled in the last decade), this bit of energy saving was not a saving at all. Estimates indicate that the energy needed to restore all of the power consuming devices that were shut off for that hour was more than was saved. Another worthless effort in an attempt to continue to keep Al Gore's inconvenient lies dangling like a carrot in front of an uninformed population.

Woe is us.

All the King's horses and all the King's men can't stop the naturally occurring Global Warming again.

Son lugares encantadores y de mucho gastos, no es lo nuestro.
Un aArgentino

Very beautiful. A great job!
Was such a good idea about turning off the lights and the impact in many ways for us and for our future generations, it awares us more about taking care of the world that God created for us His creatures and that we shoud care about it, but olso we shoud remember that the most valuable in earth nesides the animals and plants:
we are, yes the wealthiest thing in the Earth Plannet is its people.
congratulations for this beautiful work.

For those of you who live in Toronto, and is ashamed, then , please do us a favour and move somewhere else where the luxury of having such a beautiful place to live would be most appreciated. I am proud of being a Canadian and love Toronto. If we are to pratice the Mother Earth Day then we should do it everyday not just when it is convenient for us to do when reminded. I think we should all start with the great big Government buildings first as they waste for energy than most citizens. This is only my opinion and thank you for sharing these wonderful pics to us. Why did we only get to see the beautiful ones and not the areas where poverty lives with out it each and every day. Their beauty is just survial.

hey there those 17 pics were so cool i love them

Your Site Is Great,

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So now everything is ok; Is this enough; Lets be serious.

People should be made more and more aware of the need for this exercise so that every time this is repeated, the number of people participating in this should increase by leaps and bounds.

Together lets do it again.....

This is something sensible.

Awesome!! Wish people wud abide with more crucial problems the way they did with this which was only a simple request. Wouldn't they be happy seeing the result and knowing that they had a small participation

we should do it more than once a year!!!!amazing feeling watching all these photos!!each and every of us must take action!!....immediately!!!

Nice photos and all that. But how about turning off the global lights for one hour a month, or one hour a week not just an hour a year?! How else to be committed to such a grand effort?
Gerry in Greece

WORLD MUST SEE TO BELIEVE. GREAT SITE
T K ROY, INDIA

Worls not going to see much with dem lights out innit

Nehujovo...

The globe is a big joint family only if we get down to doing something together.

good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lighits off 4ever

Earth hour in its best possible forms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice pictures

breathtakingly beautiful!

its good to have a promoted world i realy enjoy seeing nice pics around globe wish have such anice palces in my country afghanistan too wich we had befor but war destoryed our country we hope no more wars here

Save the globe!!!!!!!!!! Continue the sprit !!!!!!!!!

Even my small household observed the hour. Let's pray that this idea catches on and grows bigger every year. It's just not that much to ask.

unbelievable toggles................. it's really innovative to save the globe.......

cool

well....well...this is so good to see these efforts being made to save our planet.we all should try and Jon the race and contribute to what ever best we can.save energy...turn to alternate fuel...go green..save earth....cheeers...

SO Wonderful .... Amazing picture and Place!!!

very nice. good work ppl.even we observed the earth hour at home.small but valuable contribution .

True greatness

Some things are wonderfull & without lights, specially in Athens....! All these should not be done only once!!!!

I liked all these places very much. These are wonderful,amazing,beautiful,excellent.

It was a gr8 effort.....!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool I wish my roomates would take it so seriously

noooooooooo.this shoud be green help the world!!!!!!!!!!!!

very good pictures but these are more beautiful showing only for power

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Simply Marvelous! Wonderful Photos!! I can see most of the world thru this!!!

Awesome and Beautiful images. I like this....Very keen to see more photos.......Thanks to the person, who has uploaded these images in the website.

I'm really happy to see all these countries joining hands together to save our Planet. I even appreciate the efforts taken by these Countries. It's simply the best....!!!

WOWwwwww...!!! it's so beautiful picture ..
..good job..!!!!

what crap, all this save the earth bs. tell ya what folks the earth's been here for millions of years, civilized man has been here for 2000ish. If you all really think in 2000 years we can destroy something thats survived for millions of years you got another think comin. Instead of calling it earth day call it human day cause thats what were trying to save is ourselves. I guarantee you earth will be here long after humans are gone regardless of what we "do" to earth.

Bravo! Bravoe! Two Thumbs Up.

that is so cool that is kinda amazing ......... !!!!!!!!!!!!!~

thank you for puting this website up it was very intresting to me and others and thank you !!!!

Great pictures of once a year event to save the planet earth...I remember I was in Bangkok at the time, looking at some of the buildings' lights dimmed and switched off completely, amazing what the like minded thoughts could do for a good cause.

please - one hour daily !!!

damm this places looks so good, i'm goint to Lima Peru, the place is beatiful, is amiezing... ; )