Turn Off Lights for Earth Hour 2011
This event started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights. This year at exactly 8:30 pm, all the ferries in Sydney harbor will sound their horns to kick off Earth Hour. Hundreds of millions of people are expected to participate in countries around the globe.
Many international landmarks will be participating in Earth Hour by turning off their lights. A partial list includes the Empire State Building in New York; the Eiffel Tower in Paris; the Acropolis in Athens, Greece; the Colosseum in Rome; the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the Burj Dubai tower in the United Arab Emirates; and Taipei 101, which currently holds the record as the world's tallest building.
Here are some other activities that you can participate in to make Earth Hour a success this year and share your concern for the Earth with others:
Participate in a candlelight vigil or other event in your neighborhood
Gather with friends and family and enjoy an hour of camaraderie and companionship
Write a live blog post about your experience during Earth Hour.
Twitter about your experience during Earth Hour, and tag it with #earthhour or #voteearth and your #location. Find out what millions of others are doing during that hour.
Share your Earth hour activities on Facebook, upload pictures on Flickr, or subscribe to the YouTube Earth Hour Channel and make a YouTube video
The Earth Hour website contains news about what people the world over are doing to help fight climate change, and ideas and links to activities and actions so everyone can take part. To learn much more, see WWF's downloadable pocket guide with information about climate change.
Published by Terrie Schultz
Terrie Schultz worked for many years in the biomedical field doing research and development in the areas of cancer, HIV and hepatitis. She has also taught middle school physical science, earth science, read... View profile
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6 Comments
Post a CommentVery good post! We also think that just switching the lights off on March 26, 2011 is not enough. In fact, it could be considered as a symbolic act, rather than real action...
Let's surpass ourselves. Let's try to save energy on a daily basis for an entire year, that is until the Earth Hour 2012.Let's spread the word around using the social media.
Let us take action!
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Good reporting!
I did it! But only because I was out an hour past 8:30pm, getting drenched in colors at the HOLI festival (wrote about it) while the camera was rolling. I'm big on wasteful spending, and this is raising consciousness. I have a few night nights lighting the way at night for convenient access downstairs, etc. Good idea and thank you for your support.K
Excellent article, and I hope a LOT of people read it in time to take part tonight.
I'll be anxious to see the news about it on TV tomorrow morning.
I have never heard of this before. A good idea though.
This is the first year I've heard about Earth Hour. It's a neat idea. I've often wondered why cities like New York are lit up as brightly as daylight at night.