Earth Hour 2010 – turn the lights out for a brighter future

Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, local time. Earth Hour is the largest climate manifestation in the world. Through simple action each one can show support for the climate while also urging the policy makers around the world to take action.

Earth Hour is an annual global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund), asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.

88 countries and 4,088 cities participated in Earth Hour 2009, ten times more cities than Earth Hour 2008 had (2008 saw 400 cities participate). One billion "votes" was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009, in the context of the pivotal 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Among the participants in 2009 was, for the first time, the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Links:
WWF: www.wwf.org (the website will be updated with Earth Hour information within a few weeks, but there are links to the national sites)
Earth Hour: www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx