Earth Hour is a worldwide grassroots movement uniting people to protect the planet, and is organised by WWF.
Engaging a massive mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues, Earth Hour was famously started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007.
Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide, and the one-hour event continues to remain the key driver of the now larger movement.
The event is held worldwide towards the end of March annually, encouraging individuals, communities households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol for their commitment to the planet.
Earth Hour aims to encourage an interconnected global community to share the opportunities and challenges of creating a sustainable world.
The first thing anyone can do to get involved is to turn off their lights on Saturday.
Overhead lights in rooms (whether it is your house or a business), outdoor lighting that does not impact safety, decorative lights, neon signs for advertising, televisions, desk lamps, the list goes on and on.
Earth Hour is held on the second-to-last and last weekend of March because it’s around the time of the Spring and Autumn equinoxes in the northern and southern hemispheres respectively.
This allows for near coincidental sunset times in both hemispheres, thereby ensuring the greatest visual impact for a global ‘lights out’ event.
Earth Hour 2016 will be held on tomorrow between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.
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