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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

WWF's Annual Earth Hour Saturday March 29,2014


Lights will be switched off in homes, offices and famous landmarks at 8.30 p.m. Saturday March 29,2014 for an hour to mark WWF's annual Earth Hour.


WWF in 2014 is launching Earth Hour Blue, a digital crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing platform that enables participants to help raise funds and take action on various environmental issues.
Projects open for donation range from a solar-lighting project to reduce human-wildlife conflict in India to teaching fisherman in the Philippines how to build boats without using wood from the local forests

Millions of people around the globe will participate in the celebration of the 8th edition of the Earth Hour to show their support for environmental issues ranging from deforestation to energy efficiency




World famous landmarks which will dim their lights to join in the celebration of the Earth Hour includes -

  • Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
  • Houses of the British Parliament ,London,UK
  • Buckingham palace ,London,UK
  • Tower Bridge ,London,UK
  •  the London Eye in Britain
  •  the Empire State building in New York,USA
  •  the Kremlin and Red Square in Moscow
  •  Burj Khalifa in Dubai
  •  the Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey 
  • Brandenburg Gate in Berlin,Germany
  • Howrah Bridge in Kolkata ,India
WWF announced Saturday that it has awarded the title of Global Earth Hour Capital 2014 to Cape Town in South Africa.

 

Note

The Earth Hour, launched in 2007 in Australia, has become the world's biggest environmental event.

In 2013 more than 7,000 towns and cities in 154 countries were part of this event.

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