WWF's Earth Hour is a unique annual phenomenon that focuses the world's attention on our amazing planet and how we need to protect it. At 8:30 pm on 23/03/2013 hundreds of millions of people will turn off their lights for 1 hour, at the same local time, on the same night, all across the world in a huge symbolic show of support.
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| Taken from www.NationalGeographic.com |
Earth hour has grown from 1 city, Sydney in 2007 to the world's largest campaign for the planet, uniting hundreds of millions of people across 7001 cities and town in 152 countries, all 7 continents.
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| Sydney's famous Harbour Bridge, before and after lights switch off. www.AlternativeChannel.tv
Watch the official 2013 video above to see the celebration of this year's event across the world and see its mission to unite people to protect the planet.
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Major world monuments and world heritage sites are turning off the lights too, including:
The world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa, Dubai
Times Square, New York
Christ the Redeemer statue, Brazil
London Eye
Table Mountain, South Africa
Davis Station, in Antarctica
Opera HoOuse, Sydney
Niagara Falls, Canada
Boudhanath Stupa, Nepal
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
The Obelisk, Argentina
Government House, Hong Kong
Royal Palace, Thailand
