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Some 2,000 candles, including 900 with messages written on them by children and visitors, were lit up at “Candle Night at Tokyo Midtown” this week as part of a joint effort with the ongoing Candle Night, an environmental movement that takes place during the summer and winter solstices.
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gogogo
Its pretty but what is it suppose to represent? Turn off the power or something?
northlondon
Kusanagi blew them all out at 3 in the morning that night.
Altria
Wow, total fire_hazard (at) hotmail.com
azzassa
It's an example of one of the million things we can do to waste resources to further destroy the environment instead of actually doing something practical for it.
tsukki
"Burning candles can emit small amounts of toxins, such as acetone, benzene, lead, mercury, 2-butanone, carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, creosol, chlorobenzene carbon monoxide, cyclopentene, ethylbenzene, phenol, styrene tetrachloroethene, toluene, trichloroethene and xylene."
How environment-friendly!
imacat
As the pic shows, it was quite misty in Tokyo on Monday evening... a bit of rare occurrence I thought as I returned home.
Coolasapool
hahahahahaha.
Sarge
That doesn't look like Tokyo's tallest building, but it is.
Fadamor
LOL, I thought the mist was smoke from all the candles.
tsukki, the aerosols emitted by a candle vary depending on the composition of the candle, the wick, and whether any fragrance was included. About the only thing you can guarantee coming from ANY burning candle is carbon monoxide. In any case, the emissions from 2000 burning candles is miniscule compared to 10 cars runnning for the same amount of time. Given the two polluters, I'll take the candles any day.
sf2k
did each kid come back the next day and clean up their mess, or did the city have to dump it all in landfill?
Tetsujin
And you can tell by the lights in the office building that many works are burning the midnight oil.