[airics]

Saturday 8:30 - 9:30pm, the strip neon will go dark for an hour for Earth hour... Freemont street will distribute neon necklaces and go dark... SOMEONE GET SOME VIDEO OR PICS! This is so cool...

The website for info is

2,000 cities to turn out lights for Earth Hour - Well-Mannered Traveler- msnbc.com


Vegas ... without the glitz
Las Vegas, reputed to be so well-lit that it’s visible from space, may turn out to be the most dramatic place to be during this year’s Earth Hour.

In downtown Vegas, 5,000 green, glow-in-the-dark necklaces will be handed out to visitors. Then the giant overhead screen that usually displays an eye-popping laser light show will be used to air a video about Earth Hour and then lead the crowd in a countdown to lights out on the street.

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Casinos’ interior lights will stay on and slot machines will stay plugged in, but the marquees and bright lights that illuminate nearly all the casinos and buildings on the Strip will go dark for the full hour.

“This is big,” says Jacqueline Peterson, spokesperson for Harrah’s Entertainment, which owns eight casinos in Las Vegas. “Historically, the lights on the Strip may have been dimmed for a minute or so when Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra and other Rat Pack celebrities died, but the lights on the Strip have never been turned off for a full hour.”

Another big gesture will be turning off the iconic Welcome to Las Vegas sign. Erik Pappa, spokesman for Clark County, Nevada, which encompasses the Las Vegas Strip, says he can’t remember when or if that sign has ever been turned off, but says officials agreed to cut power as part of the overall Earth Hour effort.

It may seem counter-intuitive, Pappa said, but, “we figured if you want to make a statement about the importance of our environment, there’s no more important place to do it than in Las Vegas.”

[lvkewlkid]

and wouldn't this lead to more crime on Fremont Street? will they're be lights to back this up so people can actually see? i agree with the whole "save the earth" movement, however, aren't the exterior lights of those casinos the only lights that are brightening up the street?

[airics]

i bet they just lower them like nyc.. or they play the screen like they do normally but for an hour

[lvkewlkid]

oh ok, i understand, it will be interesting to see though!

[jpk]

Uh, we get our power from hydro. There isn't any polluting emissions involved. What a stupid gesture. I might as well go out and hug a tree and accomplish just as much.

[PinkString]

Originally Posted by jpk

Uh, we get our power from hydro. There isn't any polluting emissions involved. What a stupid gesture. I might as well go out and hug a tree and accomplish just as much.

If you do decide to hug a tree, first make sure there aren't ants crawling all over it which will then crawl all over you.

[Wing Feathers]

I plan on increasing my power usage during Earth hour

[Chinga]

How silly..

Oh well.. guess I will have to switch on ALL my lights in my house to make up for the silliness in Vegas.

Just more tree-hugging Californians pushing their idea of "Global warming" on those of us in NV that know its a money making people control scam.

[swagger]

Maybe us amateur astronomers will finally have a decent view of the sky...

[VegasChick]

Originally Posted by jpk

Uh, we get our power from hydro. There isn't any polluting emissions involved. What a stupid gesture. I might as well go out and hug a tree and accomplish just as much.

LOL what rock do you live under. No, Vegas is in fact NOT powered by hydro. By 2015 this is NV Energy's goal "By 2015, we expect that about 40 percent of our electricity will be produced using natural gas, 40 percent with coal and 20 percent from renewable energy." I'm not 100% certain on their current renewable energy split, but it's closer to 10%, not 20%. They do in fact use mostly fossil fuels to fuel power for Vegas.

That being said I work in Energy, and I'm not a tree hugger and I think this entire charade is ridiculous.