Photos from Earth Hour 2009, Denver

Douglas Tapia — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:08:50 +0000

For those who missed it, this last Saturday, March 28th, from 8:30 – 9:30 PM local time was Earth Hour. For those who may be unfamiliar with Earth Hour, it was first marked in 2007, when The WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and The Sydney Morning Herald sponsored a campaign to get 2.2 million citizens of Sydney to turn off non-essential lights and appliances for one hour to raise awareness of the need to address climate change.

In Denver, Qwest and Grubb & Ellis, the property manager for the Qwest headquarters building in Denver, extinguished the iconic blue Qwest light in the Denver skyline in observance of Earth Hour. We’d love to see more business participating in this event in future years. It’s an easy, yet powerfully symbolically way to raise awareness about the need to address climate change in our public debate.

Here’s some images taken from the north side of Downtown Denver from before sunset, until after Earth Hour ended.

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Photos from Earth Hour 2009, Denver