Mar 30, 2014

Earth Hour, an annual event organized by the World Wide Fund For Nature, asks everyone around the world to turn off lights for an hour. The event is meant as a show of support for tougher action to confront climate change.

: Tokyo Tower is seen after the lights were switched off to recognize Earth Hour on March 29, 2014 (Photo by Keith Tsuji/Getty Images)

: Times Square is pictured before Earth Hour in New York on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

: Times Square is pictured before Earth Hour in New York on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

: The “Puente Nuevo” (New Bridge) is seen illuminated by artistic lights after Earth Hour in Ronda, near Malaga, Spain on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

: Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is pictured after Earth Hour in St. Petersburg, Russia on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk)

: The Arch of the General Headquarters Building is pictured after Earth Hour in St. Petersburg, Russia on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk)

: A combination picture shows St. Basil’s Cathedral before and during Earth Hour in Moscow on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin)

: People hold candles during Earth Hour after the lights were turned off in central Amman, Jordan on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Ali Jarekji)

: The Gateway of India monument is pictured during Earth Hour in Mumbai on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal)

: Kowloon peninsula, with Hong Kong’s highest skyscraper International Commerce Centre, is seen across the harbor during Earth Hour on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Bobby Yip)

: A combination picture shows the Sony Center at the Potsdamer Square before and during (bottom) Earth Hour in Berlin on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)

: A combination picture shows the Deutsche Bahn tower at the Potsdamer Square before and during Earth Hour in Berlin on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)

: An lighted panel is seen in front of the UNESCO World Heritage Cologne Cathedral and the Hohenzollern railway bridge along the river Rhine before Earth Hour on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Ina Fassbender)

: An lighted panel is seen in front of the UNESCO World Heritage Cologne Cathedral and the Hohenzollern railway bridge along the river Rhine before Earth Hour on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Ina Fassbender)

: The Old Bridge is pictured before Earth Hour in Mostar on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Dado Ruvic)

: People hold candles as they stand next to a pond in front of the Galileo Galilei planetarium during Earth Hour in Buenos Aires on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci)

: A general view of the Galileo Galilei planetarium during Earth Hour in Buenos Aires on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci)

: Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) is celebrated on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) is celebrated on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) is celebrated on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) is celebrated on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) is celebrated on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Djadnmx performs on stage during the Earth Hour, the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

: Students and visitors hold torches as they observe Earth Hour outside Fleming College’s Frost Campus for Environmental Studies in Lindsay, Ontario on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Fred Thornhill)

: People dressed as Freddy Krueger and Jason from “Friday the 13th” pose for a picture outside the Galileo Galilei planetarium during Earth Hour in Buenos Aires on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci)

: A man looks at his mobile phone as people hold candles outside the Galileo Galilei planetarium to observe Earth Hour in Buenos Aires on March 29, 2014. (REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci)

: People surround lit candles during the Earth Hour at the Jardin Plaza mall in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia, on March 29, 2014. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)

: Employees of the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel surround candles forming the number “60” during the Earth Hour on March 30, 2014 in Kuwait city. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

: Employees of the Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel surround candles forming the number “60” during the Earth Hour on March 30, 2014 in Kuwait city. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)

: Tunisians light candles during the Earth Hour on March 29, 2014 at the Roman amphitheater of Carthage on the outskirts of Tunis. (YOSRA BEN HASSINE/AFP/Getty Images)

: People surround lit candles forming the number “60” and reading earth hour” during the Earth Hour event on March 29, 2014 at the Roman amphitheater of Carthage on the outskirts of Tunis. (YOSRA BEN HASSINE/AFP/Getty Images)

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: A pedestrian passes before the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur after its lights were switched off for earth hour on March 29, 2014. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

: A pedestrian passes before the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur after its lights were switched off for earth hour on March 29, 2014. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

: A March 29, 2014 photo shows the National Cathedral with its lights dimmed to mark Earth Hour in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

: The statue of Christ the Redeemer is seen without light during the annual “Earth Hour” atop Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 29, 2014. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

: This combination of pictures shows the Serbian National Assembly building in Belgrade before and after submerging into darkness for the Earth Hour switch-off environmental campaign on March 29, 2014. (ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images)

: An activist of the Red Cross NGO holds a candle with the number “60+”, during the “Earth Hour” event at Skopje main square, on March 29, 2014. (ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

: A combo picture shows the dome in Cologne during the Earth Hour environmental campaign on March 29, 2014 in Cologne, western Germany. (HENNING KAISER/AFP/Getty Images)

: This picture shows the ancient Temple of Parthenon atop the Acropolis hill in the dark during the Earth Hour initiative in Athens on March 29, 2014. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

: Table Mountain is plunged into darkness for the global Earth Hour intitiative, on March 29, 2014, in Cape Town. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images)

: The lights shine on Table Mountain just before being turned off for the global Earth Hour intitiative, on March 29, 2014, in Cape Town. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images)

: A picture taken on March 29, 2014 shows the Vilnius Cathedral with the lights switched off to mark the annual Earth Hour in Vilnius, Lithuania. (PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images)

: The combo picture shows activists of World Wide Fund (WWF) posing in front of the Brandenburg Gate during the Earth Hour environmental campaign in March 29, 2014 in Berlin. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

: This combination of pictures shows the monument to Belarus humanist Francysk Skaryna and the National library submerging into darkness for the Earth Hour environmental campaign in central Minsk on March 29, 2014. (SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images)

: A picture shows the ‘Buda Palace’ with the white bridge, the ‘Elisabeth Bridge’ of Budapest after the lights were switched off for earth hour on March 29, 2014. (ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

: A general view shows the Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur after the lights of have been switched off for earth hour on March 29, 2014. (ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

: Revellers attend the Earth Hour event at the Opera House’s square in Hanoi on March 29, 2014. (DINH NAMHOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man dressed in a SpiderMan costume poses with a battery-powered candle in front of the Government of Moscow building as part of the Earth Hour initiative on March 29, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images for Sony)

: Varana performs on stage during the Earth Hour the global movement organized By WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) on March 29, 2014 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Victor Chavez/Getty Images for Sony)

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Earth Hour: Millions switch off lights around the globe – RT | Fashion My Best in UK
Mar 30, 2014 @ 18:39:55

[…] known as Earth Hour, which is held on the last Saturday of March. Having started …Earth Hour celebrated around the globeBaltimore Sun (blog)Earth Hour in B.C. reduces province's electricity load by one per […]

Bob
Mar 30, 2014 @ 16:46:59

We should make it, monthly, weekly and truthfully daily…

Earth Hour celebrated around the globe

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