Celebrate Earth Hour This Saturday

Posted: March 27, 2009

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The Great Pyramids of Giza, one of the world’s greatest symbols of the power of collective action, head up a list of 829 landmarks around the world switching off their lights for Earth Hour, including:

• Eiffel Tower in Paris
• Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing
• Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro
• Big Ben in London
• Empire State Building in New York
• Acropolis in Athens
• Colosseum in Rome
• Table Mountain in Cape Town
• Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco
• Arc de Triomphe in Paris
• Sydney Opera House
• Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur
• Las Vegas Strip
• CN Tower in Toronto
• Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
• Burj Dubai
• Gaudi Building in Barcelona
• Tapei 101
• The London Eye
• Niagara Falls in Canada
• The Merlion in Singapore
• Wembley Stadium Arch in London
• Sears Tower in Chicago
• Symphony of Lights in Hong Kong
• Dome of St. Peter in Rome
• Edinburgh Castle

Earth Hour’s open-source nature has been the driving force behind the campaign:

• Earth Hour has 1.1 million online social network friends.
• Earth Hour videos are being viewed online every .8 seconds.
• Earth Hour is regularly trending amongst the most tweeted topics on Twitter.
• The term ‘Earth Hour’ has appeared online close to one million times in the past twenty-four hours.

Earth Hour 2009 organizers have made a final call to the global community to help create a compelling statement on the future of the planet. “Help make Earth Hour a powerful statement on climate change that can’t be ignored by turning off your lights tonight at 8:30 pm in your time zone.” said Earth Hour executive eirector Andy Ridley.