ARMENIAN TO JOIN ‘EARTH HOUR’

ArmInfo
2010-03-24 14:45:00

ArmInfo. Armenia will join Earth Hour on Saturday March 27 at 8:30PM.

The WWF press-service reports that the action will last an hour from
8:30PM to 9:30PM on March 27. In the given period of time, the lighting
of all the administrative buildings and central avenues and streets
will be turned off. In 2009 hundreds of millions of people around
the world showed their support by turning off their lights for one
hour. Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action to
every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand
up, to show leadership and be responsible for our future. This year
1600 cities in 107 countries will join the action.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million
homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make
their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour
had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million
people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as
the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate
Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness,
as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

The organizers in Armenia are WWF-Armenia, Nature Protection Ministry,
Yerevan Municipality, the Congress Hotel, SPYUR Register, Cinema
Moscow and other organizations.