EARTH HOUR

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT EARTH HOUR ???

DO YOU KNOW WHAT EARTH HOUR IS ???

What is earth hour ?

Earth Hour is a worldwide event that is organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change.

60+ means...

Earth Hour logo was originally only 60 are patterned using numbers to represent Planet Earth 60 minutes of time used during Earth Hour. However, since 2011, it received an additional logo sign + (plus) behind the number 60. The plus sign represents the goal of Earth Hour encourages the public to conduct follow-up action after an hour of turning off the lights over.

Why is always held on a Saturday ?

Earth Hour was held on a Saturday so as not to interfere with the activities of colleagues who are still working until late at night on weekdays (Monday-Friday). Other than for reasons of productivity of the workers, the reasons for any comfort into consideration.

Saturday is a holiday that is generally used also by family members to gather together at home. Earth Hour campaign team hope every member of the family, whoever they are, regardless of age can participate in taking simple steps to save the earth at the same time strengthen their unity. Earth Hour Indonesia on the site are 10 tips you can do fun activities with my family when the lights go out.

visit this site : http://earthhour.wwf.or.id/

Why Earth Hour was held in late March ?

End of March was chosen as the implementation of Earth Hour since that time, the majority of countries around the world is experiencing a changing of the seasons so that the temperature was quite comfortable for the inhabitants of the earth when cooling or heating is turned off when Earth Hour.

In addition, in late March, the average of all parts of the world is quite dark at about 20:30 to 21:30 so that the effect of Earth Hour will be felt. Other reason, if done in the mid-year that certain countries still light up at eight o'clock.

Photos of cities before and after Earth Hour last year

Xi'an, China