Earth Hour 2009

On March 28th, all Kedco employees joined people from around the world and turned their lights off for one hour in a universal effort to show that it is possible to take action on global warming.

Earth Hour begun in Sydney two years ago by the World Wildlife Fund, 2 million people turned off their lights. Last year 50 million people across 35 countries switched off for one hour.

This year in Ireland EirGrid reported a reduction for the hour of 70 MW, enough to power 45,000 homes or 100,000 plasma TVs - in spite of a match at Croke Park!

Earth Hour is the biggest grassroots marketing campaign the world has seen. It relies on people to carry the message. It truly is an open-source model.

The term ‘Earth Hour’ is searched on the web every second.

The target WAS 1,000 cities and 1 billion people.
Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Galway, Belfast and Dublin will mean 6 Irish cities have helped swell the numbers participating to 3934 cities.

The Office of Public work darkened Irish floodlit national monuments - including the Rock of Cashel.