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Earth Hour 2012?
1. What is Earth Hour?
Earth Hour is a global campaign to showcase what can and is being done all over the world to combat climate change. Earth Hour is a worldwide initiative showing how individuals, communities, businesses and governments can address the threat of global warming if we resolve to work on it together.
2. When does Earth Hour take place?
Earth Hour takes place once every year on the last Saturday of March. Earth Hour 2012 will be held on Saturday March 31 between 8.30PM and 9.30PM in your local time zone.
3. What does Earth Hour ask people to do?
Earth Hour encourages individuals, businesses and governments to show leadership on climate change through their actions, to use Earth Hour as a platform to showcase to the world what measures they are taking to reduce their carbon footprint.
Earth Hour asks everyone to take personal accountability for their climate impact and make behavioural changes to facilitate a low-carbon lifestyle. Taking the first step is as easy as turning off your lights.
By switching off your lights for Earth Hour you are making a statement on the indiscriminate threat of global warming and a commitment to a low-carbon lifestyle.
What can you do?
- Take part as an individual
- Hold a club event and take part as a group
- Encourage other people to take part, companies, local governments and other organisations
- Sign up as a Soroptimist on the web site, you only have to give your name or organisation and country (no more personal details)