Lights Out Australia

Much of Australia's largest city, Sidney, switched off the lights to register concern about global warming. The arch of Sydney's other iconic structure, the harbor bridge, was also blacked out, along with dozens of sky-scrapers and countless homes in the 4 million + city. This was an hour long gesture that organizers said they hoped would be adopted as an annual event by cities around the world. They shut down all nonessential lights on city-owned buildings asking people to think about what action they can take to fight global warming. Restaurants throughout the city held candlelit dinners, and families gathered in public places to take part in a countdown to lights out, sending up a cheer as lights started blinkikng off at 7:30 p.m.