Bangkok will have "lights-out" for 15 minutes on Wednesday night 7 pm to raise awareness about global warming. In a city of over 10 million residents it will be interesting to see how many people are going to contribute to saving energy consumption just by switching off their lights. Bangkok already had a few lights out some time ago and it was a huge success every time.
Bangkok is not the first city to cut lights for conservation. In March 31 2007, Sydney turned off the lights for one hour between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm which they call the Earth Hour.
In February 1 2007, Paris and other parts of France dimmed them in a similar gesture. The Eiffel Tower with its 20,000 bulbs went out for 5 minutes. The City of Light went dim when thousands of Parisians joined in the lights-out campaign aimed at showing citizen concern over climate change.
Rome and Athens have had similar campaigns.
Those wishing to contribute to global warming or just wanna be aware there is a site http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/
