Just Say 'Nyerhe!' to Bill Hobbs.
World Wildlife Fund is asking individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – on Saturday, March 28, 8:30 PM, to make a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate commitment to finding solutions.
When we had Lee Poston, Director of Conservation and Science Communications at WWF, on the show on Monday, we asked him how he dealt with the people who would rather poke fun at the idea of Earth Hour, i.e. the “We’re gonna re-light the Christmas lights and turn up the oven full blast after running the dishwasher empty” crowd. Lee, who is fond of taking the high-road, said he sees it as an opportunity to have a conversation. (We say, just slap a corset on it!)
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This year, Nashville is a key Earth Hour city and Mayor Karl Dean, along with other community leaders, businesses, music industry professionals, and schools, are banding together us to turn off our lights for one hour and have that conversation.
So, tomorrow night, Mayor Dean will be joined by World Wildlife Fund officials, Nashville Earth Hour 2009 celebrity spokeswoman and award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist Jo Dee Messina, and other Nashville leaders to officially turn off the lights in Nashville!
What: Mayor Dean’s lights-out event, including live performance by Jo Dee Messina (Free and open to the public)
When: Saturday, March 28
7:30 p.m. – Lights-out event begins
8:29 p.m. – Mayor Dean and Jo Dee Messina count down to Earth Hour
8:30 p.m. – Official “switch-off”
Where: Sommet Center Plaza, corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue North
Plenty o’ other stuff happening tomorrow as well.
Some of the city’s most recognizable structures and businesses will go dark, including The Parthenon, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, AT&T Building, L&C Tower, State Capitol, Union Station Hotel, All Ingram companies (U.S., Canada, and the U.K.), Metro Courthouse, The CMT billboard at the West End/Broadway split, Caterpillar Financial Center, Nashville Songwriters Association International, CMT, Loveless Café, LP Field, Bluebird Café, Adventure Science Center, Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge.
It’ll also be lights out on historic Lower Broadway and Second Avenue for both the honky and the tonky: Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Wildhorse Saloon, Hard Rock Café, The Stage on Broadway, Jack’s Bar-B-Que, Legends Corner, Robert’s Western World, Ernest Tubb Record Shop, Layla’s Bluegrass Inn.
Universities, schools and churches across will also flip the switch: Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Lipscomb University, Nashville State Community College, Nossi College of Art, Croft Middle Design Center, Bellevue Middle School, Inglewood Elementary School, J.T. Moore Middle School, The Harpeth Hall School, Montgomery Bell Academy, University School of Nashville, First Baptist Nashville, Holy Trinity Community Church, Cathedral of the Incarnation.
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See you somewhere in the dark…BOO!
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