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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Homes and businesses in Australia's largest city will switch off lights for an hour Saturday to protest excessive greenhouse gas emissions.
Iconic downtown landmarks including the Sydney Harbor Bridge and nearby Opera House will fade under the glow of an almost full moon and the ubiquitous golden arches of McDonald's restaurants will disappear.
Almost 2,000 businesses and 53,000 homes in this city of four million people have pledged to turn their lights off for an hour Saturday evening as a show of support for a goal to cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent in the next 12 months, said the World Wild Fund for Nature, better known as WWF-Australia, which is organizing the "Earth Hour" event.
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