Ottawa reduces power consumption by 6% - Darkest Hour is our Brightest Hour!
Congratulations to everyone in the City of Ottawa who participated in Earth Hour. Last night by simply flicking off a light we participated in the largest demonstration of public concern over climate change.
Ottawa is part of a worldwide awareness program that proves that “we the people” want action on the important issue of climate change and global warming. The electricity we saved last night is enough to power 58 homes for a month.
However, there is a much bigger story and a good one at that. Last night, over 4,000 cities from over 88 countries representing hundreds of millions of people took part in the third annual Earth Hour event.
Starting from one City three years ago, the growth of the Earth Hour movement has been phenomenally encouraging to all of us who believe that our actions can make a difference. I can see a day where the Earth Hour challenge is a monthly, then weekly and finally, a daily challenge for billions of people and that gives me great hope for our future. Last night, we voted for a better world and a better future.
A special recognition to Hydro Ottawa and the Ottawa Sun who went above and beyond to make Ottawa’s participation in this global event a success.
March 30th, 2009 at 7:23 am
[…] to Mayor Larry O’brien’s blog, Ottawa was able to reduce its power consumptions by 6% during Earth Hour. While we’d love to see the stats on this from Hydro Ottawa, I do agree with Mayor […]
March 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Hi;
We have to admit that there was a dramatic change to the weather immediately following the Darkest Hour……it went from beautiful to horrible and hasn’t stopped since! Climate change…………………….who knows.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I’d like to know how much of that reduction can be directly attributed to commercial offices (including Parliament and City of Ottawa buildings and properties) reducing their power use. I didn’t notice any reduction in lights in the residential areas at all.