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Remember the WWF (World Wildlife Funds)? Yeah, it was the organisation which launched the Earth Hour project, encouraging everyone round the world to switch off the lights just for one hour.
Guess how Earth Hour all started out?
Well, it all started in 2007, in a single city in Australia, Sydney, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. And following Sydney's lead in the year 2008, many other cities around the world adopted the event.
In February, Earth Hour launched its 2012 campaign, “I Will If You Will”, with the intention of engaging its growing global community to go beyond the hour. Using a dedicated YouTube platform, IWIYW asks Earth Hour's digital community to inspire people from all corners of the globe to take sustainability actions, and to share their commitment to the environment with their own social media networks. [This bit was taken from Wikipedia]
So this year, March 31 [saturday], 2012 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, turn off all non-essential lights everywhere. If you are going out, maybe to your friends' house or something, don't think you aren't playing a role on this special day- you are already playing a big role when you turn off the lights and fans at home! But of course, it's not only during these 60 minutes of Earth Hour that you do your part in saving the Earth- in fact, if you conserve electricity everyday, isn't it that every single day of your life is the special-est Earth Hour from you to Mother Earth?
So count down to Earth Hour from now...
