Lights out for Earth hour

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Our lights went out - did yours?

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Lights went out across the globe at 8pm on Saturday 29th March.

We went green at Meridian Broadcasting's studios in Whiteley and switched off all our lights for an hour as part of the Lights Out Hampshire initiative.

Other well-known landmarks across the world joined us, including the Spinnaker Tower, Brighton pier, and Winchester Cathedral.

But it wasn't just public buildings that went green for the evening - ordinary people across the South turned off their non-essential domestic lights for an hour as well.

Click here for a video explaining what a difference just one hour can make.

Click here to see Brighton Pier go dark during Global Earth Hour.

Click here to see the Spinnaker Tower switch off.

Click here to see a viewer video from Winchester Cathedral.

Click here to see video diaries from Southern FM's Jack the Lad at Brighton Pier and The Grand Hotel.

Click here to see John Pate and his family doing their bit for the environment all the way from Sydney!

We've teamed up with Power FM and Southern FM for Lights Out Sussex and Hampsire, a campaign to create a more environmentally sound South. The campaign aims to reduce greenhouse emissions and demonstrate how a few small actions from businesses, schools and individuals can literally make the world of difference. Almost half of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions, the main greenhouse gas which causes climate change, actually come from the things we do every day.  Things like leaving lights on unnecessarily or overfilling the kettle all waste energy and result in needless carbon dioxide emissions.   

Across the region, Lights Out events were held in Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, with normally brightly-lit buildings such as Brighton Pier, Brighton's seafont, Winchester Cathedral, and Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower going dark.

Did you take part in Lights Out? If so we want to hear from you!

Upload your clip to Your News to help spread the message about protecting our earth.  Your videos could be shown on ITV Local, ITV Meridian, and the Southern FM and Power FM websites.

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