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Earth Hour: 31 March 2012 at 8.30pm
Earth Hour: 31 March 2012 at 8.30pm
The world’s largest voluntary action for the environment, Earth Hour will take place across the globe this Saturday 31 March, as the lights switch off for one hour at 8.30pm local time.
Earth Hour has grown from a one-city initiative in 2007 to a global movement, last year reaching 1.8 billion people in 5,251 cities and towns in 135 countries across all seven continents.
What: Earth Hour 2012
When:
31 March 2012 at 8.30pm
Where: In over 5000
cities and towns across more than 130 countries
Notes:
Downloadable video footage of the global event will be
available for in four B-rolls for media covering major
regions on the night at
http://www.earthhour.org/media-centre/videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/earthhour/featured
Images
of landmarks switching off and global Earth Hour events will
be available at
http://earthhour.org/media-centre/images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthhour_global
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