Nashville Joins WWF Lights-Out Event

The World Wildlife Fund named Nashville this morning as one of six flagship cities in the U.S. that plan to participate in next year’s lights-out event.

Music City joins Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami and San Francisco. In total, the skylines and landmarks of 74 cities in 62 different countries will go dark for one hour, the night of March 28th, to call for global action on climate change.

Private businesses will be asked to participate. Brenda Sanderson has already committed to go dark. She owns four of the honky tonk bars on Broadway.

“I have children and grand children, and I just hope that the earth they inherit from us will be a better place.”

Sanderson says she doesn’t expect 60-minutes without the glow of her neon signs will make a huge dent in climate change. But she says it will at least remind her patrons to turn off the lights when they leave a room.