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Earth Hour 2011 – 8:30pm, Saturday 26 March 2011

  • Ethan Gelber
  • 26 March 2011

The instant this goes live it will be 8:30pm on Saturday 26 March 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Earth Hour will just have begun, exactly where it first started four years ago. On that day in 2007, an estimated 2.2 million people and more than 2,000 businesses extinguished their lights for one hour “to take a stand against climate change.”

Earth Hour logo

The WHL Group encourages you to support this year’s Earth Hour effort and to push beyond the record 128 countries and territories that participated in 2010 by switching off the lights of iconic buildings and landmarks all across the globe. All you have to do is as little as turn off your lights for 60 minutes. If that’s not enough, there are other ways to take action.

And if that’s not enough, this year we also urge you to “go beyond the hour” and think about what else you can do to make a difference.

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Ethan Gelber

For more than 20 years, Ethan Gelber has devoted himself to a somewhat baffling diversity of projects, most associated with writing/editing, cross-cultural communication and education, travel, bicycling and the arts. At present, he manages media and communications for the WHL Group, oversees The Travel Word (this very blog) and helped initiate the Local Travel Movement.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, March 26th, 2011 at 5:30 am and is filed under the following categories:

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3 Responses to “Earth Hour 2011 – 8:30pm, Saturday 26 March 2011”

  1. Sonya says:
    March 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    Thanks so much for sharing this year’s Earth Hour. The Beyond the Earth Hour focus moves it forward.

  2. Len Cordiner says:
    March 26, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    Sitting in Sydney now …having just witnessed the landslide election yesterday (Earth Hour Day) of a conservative government in NSW committed to taking no action on climate change. Very sad. (Real) Change is coming much more slowly than many of us hoped.

    We didn’t have our Earth Hour party for the neighbours this year because of the clash with the elections. Will definitely have one again next year. We are also organising a launch party for Green Path Transfers in a few weeks. A celebration. We need more.

  3. Kamran says:
    April 4, 2011 at 7:24 am

    Dear Mr. Cordiner,

    I share your grief about the elections. We as private sector players can only try and rally conscious consumers, hoping the idea will catch up as the norm. To do so we need to be cunning marketers. But even then, it is a generation’s process. We must plant the seed before hoping to have a tree. I sometimes feel helpless and ridiculed by society but our fight is a sincere one. Let’s keep hope.

    Blessings

    Kamran

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