I hope you’ve circled the date on your calendar! This Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 8:30-9:30 pm is Earth Hour!
Earth Hour started in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning off their lights for one hour as a “vote” FOR the earth, and a “vote” AGAINST global warming. By 2011, this movement had grown to hundreds of millions of people, and even darkened the Sydney Opera House, Rome’s Colosseum, The Eiffel Tower in Paris, The Parthenon in Greece, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the Las Vegas Strip, New York City’s Times Square and landmarks around the globe.
Last year people from all around the world switched off their lights in a unified vote because, regardless of where you live, we all depend on the same planet! This is the perfect time to turn off the lights, discuss global warming and the importance of “being green” as a family. Consider taking actions to assure that we aren’t polluting our earth and overusing resources in our everyday lives.
For more information, go to www.earthhour.org and sign-up to be “officially” counted!
Need some inspiration?
Or want to know what we did last year?… click here…
now…
Will you (please) “vote” with me this year?
Loved the video – it gave me goosebumps! Thank you for sharing it and reminding us about this day. I “voted” and signed up my family.
We always seem to be (unintentionally!) away or out when Earth Hour rolls around. We had our own “earth hour” though this past weekend. We were replacing a light fixture in our hallway and the only breaker switch that cut the power to it was the main one… so literally our whole house was shut off for over an hour!
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