Earth Hour is March 28, 2009 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm in your local time zone. Curious to know more? Read more and watch videos here.
The first Earth Hour was in 2007, the brainchild the World Wildlife Fund in Sydney, Australia. One city participated with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning off their lights for one hour. The next year, Earth Hour 2008 went global with 50 million people in 35 countries participating.
This year, the goal is one billion participants in Earth Hour 2009. Vote Earth’ is the theme this year. Turning off your lights for one hour beginning at 8:30 p.m. local time is a vote cast for the future survival of the Earth.
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Famed artist Shepard Fairey who designed the ionic Obama logo has designed the official Earth Hour logo which you can see above. You can see and download the image in a number of formats on Flickr.
Will 1 billion people participate in 2009? Find out more at the official Earth Hour Web site.
It is estimated that more than 1,500 cities and towns in 80 countries will participate. Notably, in France, 28 cities including Paris will participate. This means that The Eiffel Tower and other iconic Paris landmarks including the Cathedral of Notre Dame and l’Elysée, will be darkened during that hour.
Other landmarks slated to participate by going dark or dim include: the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, The Great Pyramids and Sphinx in Egypt, Rome’s Colosseum, New York City’s Broadway theater signs, Rockefeller Center and the Empire State Building, the London Eye Ferris wheel, the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, the Las Vegas strip, Niagara Falls, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Table Mountain in Cape Town, and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Source: An Hour to Help Save the Earth
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1:04 am on March 28th, 2009 1
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9:50 am on October 25th, 2009 2
i always participate whenver there is an Earth Hour event. it is a good thing that the World Wildlife Fund organized an event like this.
8:21 am on November 10th, 2009 3
Earth Hour is really a good concept on how we could spend at least a few minutes of our time in remembering mother Eearth. people should be more aware and more caring of our environment now that we have Global Warming and Climate Change