Did Turning Off Your Lights Matter?: Some Early Earth Day 2008 Results

Results are starting to come in from Earth Hour 2008. What impact can be made by turning off non-essential lighting for one hour?

Chicago saved an estimated 420 tons of carbon dioxide emissions

Toronto saw an 8.7% drop is electricity usage over the hour

British Columbia saved 125 megawatts of electricity

Bangkok saved 73.3 megawatts of electricity

Christchurch (in southern New Zealand) saw power consumption drop 12.8%

Fiji reports electricity use was down 11.2 megawatts and saved 7.34 tons of emissions

Dubai reduced electricity use by 100,000 kilowatts and 60,000 kilograms (60 tons) of emissions