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By: Philstar.com MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines topped last Saturday’s hour-long lights-off drive in terms of power savings. According to information posted in the website wwf.org.ph, the Philippines saved 611 MWh of power during the Earth Hour 20009, outshining the rest of the world. The website also disclosed that with over 15 million Filipinos in 650 major cities participating in the event last Mar. 26, the Philippines edged out all other countries, including Australia where the first Earth Hour was conducted in 2007. Greece placed second with 484 cities and towns participating, followed by Australia By with 309. The website indicated that the power conserved by the Philippines during voluntary event was estimated to be equal to that saved by shutting down a dozen coal-fired power plants for an hour. Earth Hour 2009's power savings was deemed “at least 10 times more massive and effective” compared to last year. - By Katherine Adraneda (Philstar News Service, www.phi...

THIS SATURDAY, 28 MARCH AT 8:30PM YOU CAN VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR -- EARTH HOUR. MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT Turn off your lights for Earth Hour, record your vote and share it with the world! Here's how. PHOTO Take a photo on the night, upload it to flickr and add it to Earth Hour's flickr group and tag it with your city and country. VIDEO Make a video of your event, upload it to YouTube and add it to our YouTube group. BLOG Write a live blog post during the event and tag it with earthhour or voteearth, and your location. TWITTER Update your Twitter on the night and write #earthhour or #voteearth and your #location in your update to tag it. 8:30pm local time, wherever you live on Planet Earth. This Saturday, 28 March 2009. Your vote counts! Vote Earth!