Earth Hour this year was March 28. Citizens were asked to vote for Earth and against global warming by the simple act of switching off their lights and reducing their use of electricity from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Earth Hour began in Sydney, Australia in 2007 and sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund it was expected to have over 1 billion people participating this year.

A crowd of over 100 people gathered at Centennial Lodge in Queens Park on Wednesday, March 25 to Save Our Rivers. The meeting was sponsored by the New Westminster Environmental Partners and the Council of Canadians and featured Rafe Mair, a former Minister of the Environment, Damien Gillis, a film maker and Joe Foy of the Western Canadian Wilderness Committee. All three were passionately opposed to the privatization of British Columbia's rivers. Damien showed graphic footage that he shot of the environmental destruction that these massive projects wreck upon the pristine wilderness.