Earth Hour: Will You Turn Off Your Lights?
At 8:30 p.m. local time in more than 80 countries, an estimated 1 billion people will turn off their lights. Will you be one of them?
Earth hour is almost upon us. Will you be going dark at 8:30 p.m.? Earth Hour is a global World Wildlife Fund initiative that began in Sydney, Aulstralia in 2007, when 2 million people switched off their lights. In 2008, more than 50 million people all over the world took part in the action, according to Earth Hour's website. In 2009 almost 1 billion people worldwide switched off their lights. By 2011, Earth Hour involved 135 countries with more than 1.8 billion people participating. In countries and on continents where the hour has already occurred, hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark earlier today. Earth Hour is held on the last Saturday of March every year, and began as a …
Mrs. W.
2:24 pm on Friday, July 6, 2012
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