Dear Friends, We invite you to participate in Candle Night 2004. Candle Night -- Summer Solstice 2004 Turn off your lights for two hours on the summer solstice. June 19-21, 8 to 10 p.m. Do something specialc Read a book with your child by candle light. Enjoy a quiet dinner with a special person. This night can mean many things for many people. A time to save energy, to think about peace, To think about people in distant lands who share your planet. Pulling the power plug opens the window to a new world. Awakens us to human freedom and diversity. It's a process of discovery about our potential However you spend them, for just two hours, join us. Turn off the lights, and help us spread a gentle wave of candle light around the earth. June 19-21 2004. The summer solstice. 8 to 10 p.m. Turn off the light, take it slow. " Candle Night -- Summer Solstice 2004" Organizing Committee for "Candle Night -- Summer Solstice 2004" Please visit us and subscribe to the gCandle Letterh newsletter. http://www.candle-night.org/index.html Contact : eninfo@candle-night.org Share with us your comments and ideas about how you spend the two hours. Don't forget to forward this message to your friends all over the world. *** Candle Night 2003 Report *** On June 22, 2003, we organized the first nation-wide gCandle Nighth Summer Solstice event in Japan. During the two hours between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., many lights were turned off, including illumination on landmarks like the Tokyo Tower, and Shuri Castle, and lights in many cafes and many many homes. The Candle Night campaign was organized by a grassroots group of gcandle initiatorsh and supported by more than 450 key figures and organizations in many regions and fields. The Ministry of the Environment also joined us, encouraging many facilities to turn off their lights during the two hours. It was reported that more than 2,030 facilities supported the initiative by turning off their lights on that night, and more than 5 million people in Japan enjoyed Candle Night 2003 in their own way. Candle Night is a voluntary movement without any centralized organization. Anyone can join in his or her own way, just feeling and sharing the same moment with many people, beyond regional borders and generations. In order to link people up in this sharing and give a sense of belonging to the bigger picture, the "CandleScape" platform was created on the webpage to help visualize everyone's participation. Also, an American military satellite in space, DMSP(F-15), took a photo of Japan at night during the two hours, and compared it to a photo taken a week earlier to show the visual effect of the "lights off." Tokyo Electric Power Company also monitored electricity consumption on the day and provided us the figures, showing the trend of hourly power consumption in their market region, almost in real-time. *** So how will you participate in Candle Night 2004? Stay up-to-date with new info, events, and messages from around the world, by subscribing to the gCandle Letterh at: Organizing Committee for "Candle Night -- Summer Solstice 2004" http://www.candle-night.org/index.html