Lights Out San Francisco is inviting the residents of San Francisco to turn off their lights for one hour (8pm to 9pm) on Saturday, October 20th. The goal is to try and save 15% of the energy that is normally used on an average Saturday night and to encourage energy conservation.
The city of San Francisco has also pledged to turn off non-essential lighting for an hour on The Golden Gate Bridge, The Bay Bridge, City Hall, Alcatraz and other parts of the city and several restaurants will host candlelight dinners that night.
Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event on October 20, 2007. On this night, we invite the entire city of San Francisco to turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour from 8-9pm. To promote long-lasting energy saving, we plan to distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the city. Also, watch for community events in your neighborhood. Join us and turn out your lights!
Here’s how you can get involved and for more info, check out their FAQ and blog.
The organizers of Lights Out San Francisco, are planning on making this annual event that takes place throughout the country. The first Lights Out America will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
UPDATE 1: Ed Hunsinger let us know that Google is planning to change the background color of their website to black for an hour during Lights Out San Francisco.
UPDATE 2: Here are some photos from around the city shot during Lights Out San Francisco.
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That’s brilliant.. Such a simple idea.
I love candle light.
I wish we had that in London!
A “side benefit” may be that San Franciscans see a whole lot more of the majestic night sky than they’re used to. Overuse of poorly designed outdoor lighting, much of which directs light into the air where it isn’t needed, has greatly diminised our ability to see the heavens and appreciate their beauty.
For more info, see http://www.darksky.org and http://www.darkskysociety.org.
Worth mentioning that we’re hosting a free candlelight celebration in Dolores Park that night. Hope you can make it: http://www.lightsoutsf.org/dolores.html
Nate
It is awesome that San Fran turns off the power for one houre atleast I think they should try it in more citys like in Pa of Calafornia and florda please type me back if you could try my Idea next time
My parents call me a tree hugger so what if i am it is just a oppion
Thanks for this. It would be a great reminder to all SF readers to post it again this afternoon!
You had a few supporters here in Los Angeles who kept their lights out in support of the program. However, it all seemed for naught since the Staples Center had some show that required no less than 10 skylighters (large moving spotlights) and the whole city block was bathed in bright light… so much for energy conservation.
well, I think that this was a good idea, my teacher read about it, and now we are doing that as our project, we are learning about global warning and such topics. She saw Nate plan in a Boston newspaper. I think this is a great way to alert people that just the little things can influence everyone. We are planning to take the plan into action in our independent school k-12, as a school activilty to let everyone even the kindergardeners know that our world is in danger. We hope to get this out to our community, local cities so they can be aware of the little things that the schools or the whole community can do as a whole. Keep influencing others with great ideas! =]