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Angelika No, there was no power outage in San Francisco, and we were not sitting in the dark. Rather, the actors of the campaign... Lights Out" translatesto "Apagar las luces" in Spanish. They were called upon to voluntarily dim the city. For one hour, the lights went out at prominent buildings such as the Bay Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Transamerica Pyramid, the Coit Tower, the Ferry Building, and City Hall (Civic Center). Some restaurant owners also participated in the event (including the East German pub Walzwerk) and served guests by candlelight.
The main initiator, Nate Tyler, came up with this idea after experiencing a similar story during a vacation in Sydney. "Lights Out" was intended to symbolically highlight the necessity of saving electricity in order to better manage energy consumption and combat global warming. Additionally, volunteers had previously distributed 100,000 energy-saving light bulbs on the streets of San Francisco.
Even the internet search engine The translation of "Googleschloà sich an" to English is "Google joined in. The translation to English is: "and turned their main page black for a few hours. By the way, the initiator Nate Tyler was formerly a 'Communication Manager' at Google.
From our balcony, we observed that, amusingly, it took almost 45 minutes for all the lights on the part of the Bay Bridge adjacent to the city to finally go out. Overall, it was still quite bright everywhere, but hats off to the initiators who managed to overcome bureaucratic hurdles and persuade those in charge to participate. And they have further ambitions. On March 29, 2008, they want to carry out the action across America. Eleven cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have already agreed.
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