Volpe Center Joins Earth Hour's Call to Action on Climate Change
At the invitation of City of Boston Mayor Thomas J. Menino, the Volpe Center helped raise awareness about climate change and asked employees to extinguish all nonessential lighting and to power down their offices before they left work on the eve of Earth Hour 2009.
Earth Hour is an international climatechange awareness campaign organized by the World Wildlife Fund that asked people, businesses, governments and communities to turn off their lights between 8.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. on March 28, to demonstrate their concern about global warming.
Earth Hour's global wave of participation included 2838 cities and towns in 83 countries across all seven continents including 829 icons and landmarks including New York's Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Beijing, China's Bird Nest and Water Cube, Sydney, Australia's Opera House, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, and Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
The Volpe Center was proud to join others around the world, from small island nations of the South Pacific to the densely populated cities of the Americas, in a moment of global solidarity aimed at creating a compelling statement on the future of the planet.
