"My love, shut the light, please," is a phrase that is heard every night in millions of bedrooms the planet. But what happens if everyone agrees and repeating this in unison? It was something like this it raised to the organizers of the famous event "Earth Hour", which consists of calling once a year to earthlings to turn off as many appliances have on hand. Simple.
During the first experiment, conducted on March 31, 2007 in Sydney, Australia, over two million people welcomed the call and spent an hour in the dark. A lot to ask? The truth is that the effort is minimal. And best of all is that such actions help, and tired. First of all, to create awareness in people, especially young people. Second, the energy savings produced is considerable and real. It started
in the land of kangaroos in Australia in 2007 as a simple concern of the WWF to invite people to save energy. To the surprise of the initiative was widely accepted from the outset. Getting more than 2 million home off the light at the same time and day agreed. No doubt it was the first seed.
Soon the concept was already spread everywhere. In fact, emblematic architectural icons in the world turned off their lights. The San Francisco Golden Gate, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum traded their selfishness for one and lost some prominence in the dark. But that was not all. A giant neon sign for Coca Cola, located in the heart of Times Square, New York, also voluntarily went to black. Even Google did its thing and obscured the bottom of your screen.
With only four years, the environmental action has become the largest in the world, to the point that the more people involved. In fact, 27 of this past March more than 5000 cities were present, and hundreds of millions of people pulled the switch, of course, to spend an hour in the dark.
are already four versions of this campaign. And you? Still not part of it? Why wait until March next year. Start by turning off decorative lights forever in your house and unplug unused appliances, and tell the people who still does so: "My love, shut the light, please."
During the first experiment, conducted on March 31, 2007 in Sydney, Australia, over two million people welcomed the call and spent an hour in the dark. A lot to ask? The truth is that the effort is minimal. And best of all is that such actions help, and tired. First of all, to create awareness in people, especially young people. Second, the energy savings produced is considerable and real. It started
in the land of kangaroos in Australia in 2007 as a simple concern of the WWF to invite people to save energy. To the surprise of the initiative was widely accepted from the outset. Getting more than 2 million home off the light at the same time and day agreed. No doubt it was the first seed.
Soon the concept was already spread everywhere. In fact, emblematic architectural icons in the world turned off their lights. The San Francisco Golden Gate, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Colosseum traded their selfishness for one and lost some prominence in the dark. But that was not all. A giant neon sign for Coca Cola, located in the heart of Times Square, New York, also voluntarily went to black. Even Google did its thing and obscured the bottom of your screen.
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With only four years, the environmental action has become the largest in the world, to the point that the more people involved. In fact, 27 of this past March more than 5000 cities were present, and hundreds of millions of people pulled the switch, of course, to spend an hour in the dark.
are already four versions of this campaign. And you? Still not part of it? Why wait until March next year. Start by turning off decorative lights forever in your house and unplug unused appliances, and tell the people who still does so: "My love, shut the light, please."
Source: veoverde
