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Photo #1 by Carlos PatrĂ£o on January 21, 2008 at 4:02 p.m.

Wonderful initiative! 

Probably some day we will see a kind of “Live Earth” but with cities connected all over the world disconnecting lamps all together!

Anyway, disconnecting lamps doesn’t solve anything but it’s a good campaign to start talking more and more about the subject and there is always someone that makes the difference… we can all make it!

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