Celebrate Earth Hour 2010

 

by Deborah Miarkowska

Show you care about climate change - turn off your lights in support of Earth HourMarch 27th 2010 heralds Earth Hour, a WWF climate change initiative. Earth Hour aims to educate the global community about the threat of climate change. Held on the last Saturday of March annually, it is a global call to action to individuals, businesses, politicians and governments to show how easy it is to make small changes to the way we live and operate. By reducing our energy use and we can help reduce global carbon emissions and their impact upon climate change and our planet.

The first Earth hour took place as a solo event in Sydney in 2007. Over two million people and two thousand businesses across the city turned off their lights and appliances for one hour. By 2008, the message had grown with over 50 million people across 35 countries turning off their lights in support and since then the Earth Hour message has swept the planet. By 2009 hundreds of millions of people around the world from London to Sydney to Mexico City showed their global support for Earth Hour. In uniting people of the world regardless of their age, race, religion, gender or social standing, Earth Hour has become the the largest social movement in history.

Earth Hour March 27th 2010

This years Earth Hour 2010, will be held from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm on March 27th. A list of famous icons and landmarks worldwide will be turning off their lights. This includes the Eiffel Tower, Paris; Grand Palace, Bangkok; Sky Tower, Auckland; London Eye, London; Piccadilly Circus, London; Brandenburg Gate, Berlin; Empire State Building, New York; Burj Al Arab, Dubai; Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; El Ángel, Mexico City; Trevi Fountain, Italy; Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Forbidden City, Beijing; Red Fort, Delhi; and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy.

So why do it?

The effect of climate change caused by carbon emissions poses the greatest threat to life on Earth. By changing the world’s collective attitude towards the use of carbon-emitting sources we can all help alleviate this threat. Your participation in Earth Hour is a contribution to this global message that climate change affects us all and is the responsibility of the global community.

And Earth Hour is not just about iconic buildings. It is fun too. So why not have a go at some smaller scale activities that took place in 2009? Try dancing-by-candlelight, torchlit hide-and-seek or how about a shadow puppet show using candle lamps and cutout figures.

Join in Earth Hours message on March 27th, that the collective actions of individuals really can change the world. And have some fun doing it too.

Words: Alice C Doyle, EcoChic PR & Environmental Writer.

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