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Earth Hour 2018

Stuart Mitchell

Every year, millions of people around the world join the Earth Hour movement and switch off their lights for one hour to show support for protecting our planet and stopping climate change. This year, Earth Hour is at 8:30 p.m. your local time on Saturday, March 24. Earth Hour 2018 comes at a critical moment in the fight against climate change. After the United States announced its intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement—the world’s first truly global plan to address climate change—more than 2,600 leaders across America’s state houses,…

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WWF Earth Hour Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Stuart Mitchell
Earth hour

On 25th March WWF’s Earth Hour campaign celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). From humble beginnings in Sydney, Australia in 2007 as a lights-off event, it has grown into a global movement with over 7,000 cities and towns across 172 countries taking part in 2016’s event. The event is held annually encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. towards the end of March, as a…

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