Lights Out San Franciscoについてのバックグラウンド (原文は日本語訳の下に添付してあります。)
"Lights Out San Francisco"は市全体で10月20日に行われる、省エネイベントです。その夜、私達は全てのサンフランシスコ市で1時間、不必要なライトを消すことを呼びかけています。持続性の高い省エネのプローモーションとして、私達は無料でコンパクト蛍光灯電球を町中に配るプランを立てています。 一時間と一つの電球の何が良い事になるのか?何を目的としたイベントなのか?と聞かれるかもしれません。
これまでにLights Out San Franciscoでは私達の取り組みに対して多大なサポートと大変前向きな反応をいただいています。現在私達の増え続けるサポーターには Esruance, Gap Inc., Integrated Archive Systems, PG&E, Safeway, Tides Center, and Yahoo!の皆様がいらっしゃいます。
アメリカ合衆国の各都市の人々や世界中の人までが、自分たちの街でもLights Outイベントを実施したいという願いを込めて私達に連絡を下さっています。私達の狙いは10月20日のこのイベントが2008年3月に年次で始まる国家レベルのライトアウトへの取り組みを実行させる為に必要な土台を作ることです。" Lights Out America"は2008年3月29日土曜日に計画されている国全体での省エネイベントです。このイベントの参加促進にご興味のある方は info@lightsoutsf.orgにE-mailしてください。
About Lights Out San Francisco Background
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. To promote long-lasting energy saving, we plan to distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs throughout the city. You may ask: what good does one hour and one light bulb do? What do we hope to accomplish?
Our city's growing appetite for energy must be controlled to protect our planet from the effects of the climate crisis. We estimate that turning lights out in San Francisco for even one hour could save as much as 15 percent of the energy consumed on an average Saturday night. The ongoing benefits of installing CFLs in your house are also significant.
This savings will reduce carbon emissions into our air, preserve the natural resources used to produce this energy, set a positive precedent for the rest of the nation (as San Francisco so often does!), and result in ongoing reduced costs for the city, taxpayers, and businesses.
We're asking San Franciscans to join together that night throughout the city to watch the lights go out. We'll publish the energy-saving results on this website. We plan to make Lights Out San Francisco a recurring event and part of a wider effort to promote energy-saving consciousness for our wonderful city.
We were inspired by a similar event recently held in Sydney, Australia, called Earth Hour. In Sydney, 2.2 million people participated. Their one hour of lights out meant that 24.86 tons of carbon dioxide were not released into the air - the equivalent of taking 48,613 cars off the road for one hour.
Of course, we'd hope for the same or better here.
Thus far, LOSF has received a tremendous amount of support and very positive responses to our efforts. Currently our growing list of supporters includes Esruance, Gap Inc., Integrated Archive Systems, PG&E, Safeway, Tides Center, and Yahoo!. People in cities across the country, and even around the world, have contacted us in hopes of organizing Lights Out events in their own towns. Our hope is that the October 20th event will lay the groundwork necessary to implement an annual national lights out effort beginning in March of 2008. Lights Out America is a countrywide energy conservation event proposed for Saturday, March 29, 2008. If you're interested in facilitating participation in your city, please email info@lightsoutsf.org.
How can you get involved? We're glad you asked. Your support is critical to making Lights Out San Francisco a success.