ICONIC LOS ANGELES BUILDINGS
Going Lights Out for Earth Hour
March 28th at 8:30pm.
The impressive list includes:
Capitol Records Tower
Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel
El Capitan Theater
El Rey Theater
Griffith Observatory
Pinks
LAX Neon Pylons
L.A. City Hall
Van Nuys City Hall
San Pedro City Hall
A BILLION SQUARE FEET OF REAL ESTATE
Real estate giant, CB Richard Ellis, is encouraging lights-out participation in the more than 2 billion square feet of its global management portfolio. Additionally, CBRE will observe Earth Hour in its more than 300 offices around the world, and encourage personal participation among its more than 30,000 global employees. To further increase environmental awareness and encourage participation, each of the occupants in the participating buildings will be provided with "
101 Tips Toward a Greener Tomorrow," which serves as a green guide for home conservation and co-branded with WWF and Earth Hour.
OPEN TABLE AND DINELA BRING CANDLELIGHT TO L.A. EATERIESOpenTable, the world's most popular website for making restaurant reservations online has joined Restaurant Week superstars
dineLA, a program of
L.A. INC. to promote Dine By Candlelight for Los Angeles residents. Dine By Candlelight is a community initiative that asks residents to not only turn off the lights for Earth Hour but to spend that evening supporting local business. Participating restaurants, bars and hotels all over the city will dim their electric lights and serve dinner and drinks by candlelight while offering special Earth Hour menu items. Visit the
OpenTable Earth Hour or go to the Participants page on this site.
ENTERTAINMENT VENUES GO DARKiO West,
Groundlings,
The Comedy Store,
Amoeba Records,
El Ray Theater,
El Capitan Theater,
House of Blues and
Upright Citizens Brigade theaters are all turning off exterior lights and marquis and some will even feature "half-lit" performances Earth Hour night.
LA SCHOOLS PROGRAMDuring Earth Hour, the city's Partnership Schools Program will kick off an ewaste competition between teams of students to develop "greenprints" of their schools and collect e-waste such as old mobile phones and computers from their communities, to be re-purposed instead of sent to landfills.
PARADISE AT NIGHTPeople all over L.A. will stop their busy lives for one hour to get together with their kids, friends (or their entire block!) to turn off the lights and look at the stars. Residents are encouraged to get out their telescopes, download a map of the constellations and find the Big Dipper and Orion!
MAKE A ONE MINUTE MOVIE60oneminutes.org is taking submissions for one-minute movies that support Earth Hour with the theme, Take Back Your Power. A selection of submissions will be broadcast on Current TV starting on Earth Hour through to Earth Day as a fun, interactive way of continuing the conversation past 9:31 p.m. on March 28
L.A. LIVE CELEBRATION ON MARCH 28THFree and open to the public, this entertaining celebration for the whole family will be held at L.A. LIVE starting at 7 p.m. on March 28.
More details to come.
