Do you know about earth hour?
Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), held on the last Saturday of March from 8.30-09.30 pm on local time, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
It was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007 and achieved worldwide participation in 2008.
With 35 countries around the world participating as official flagship cities and over 400 cities also supporting, Earth Hour 2008 was a major success, celebrated on all seven continents. .
The official website for the event, earthhour.org, received over 6.7 million unique visitors in the week leading up to Earth Hour.
several facts in earth hour........
Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), held on the last Saturday of March from 8.30-09.30 pm on local time, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.
It was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007 and achieved worldwide participation in 2008.
With 35 countries around the world participating as official flagship cities and over 400 cities also supporting, Earth Hour 2008 was a major success, celebrated on all seven continents. .
The official website for the event, earthhour.org, received over 6.7 million unique visitors in the week leading up to Earth Hour.
several facts in earth hour........
- Iconic landmarks all around the world turned off their non-essential lighting for Earth Hour which included the Empire State Building (New York City), Sears Tower (Chicago), Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco), Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta), Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia), Wat Arun Buddhist Temple (Bangkok, Thailand), the Colosseum (Rome, Italy), Royal Castle (Stockholm, Sweden), London's City Hall (England), Space Needle (Seattle), the CN Tower (Toronto, Canada) and SM Mall of Asia & The Giant Globe (Manila, Philippines)
- From 12:00 a.m. on March 29, 2008 until the end of Earth Hour, the Google homepage in the United States, Colombia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland and the UK was turned to a black background. Their tagline is, "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn - Earth Hour.
- According to WWF Thailand, Bangkok decreased electricity usage by 73.34 megawatts, which, over one hour, is equivalent to 41.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
- According to a Zogby International online survey 36 million people participated in Earth Hour 2008, with an estimated 50 million doing the same around the world. The survey also showed there was a 4 percentage point increase in awareness of environmental issues such as climate change, directly after the event.
- in Sydney, Australia, the end of Earth Hour was celebrated with a fireworks show.
- you can join the group and share to your friend in facebook(http://http//www.facebook.com/s.php?sid=c3db1c287cf10cdb8928228f20bd611c&init=q&sf=r&k=200000010&n=-1&q=earth%20hour%20#/group.php?sid=c3db1c287cf10cdb8928228f20bd611c&gid=2235111402)
Now it's the time to save the earth, to save the planet that we live in. it is not too bad to turn off our electronic goods for one hour because our earth has give us everything. earth hour is the way we express our thank to earth.
okay, let's participate!!!
edited from : wikipedia.com
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