Earth Hour Happens Today at 2030

By: Tariq Bamadhaj (Senior Editor)

By flipping your lights out for an hour today (March 27th) at 8.30pm local time, you’ll be joining millions others around the world in making a bold statement about your concern for climate change and are willing to do something about it. It doesn’t require you to give up your car for a day or take public transportation for a week, though those would definitely help, but as simple as turning the lights off at 8.30pm local time.

If you’ve seen the ads and wonder what Earth Hour is all about, here’s their mission:

On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. In the U.S. where we are already feeling the impacts of climate change, Earth Hour sends a clear message that Americans care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation.

Participation is easy. By flipping off your lights on March 27th at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation and prosperous America. View the toolkits, to find out what else you can do to get involved including leading the Earth Hour movement in your community.

So set your alarms and turn your lights off for an hour today. It’s the least you can do!