An hour of blackout for the planet's health

The  "Earth Hour 2011", an idea that is developed annually for five years to demonstrate the concern of humanity from climate change. How to join.
The blackout, which will take place today, March 26 by the end of an hour, will be developed with cascading effect on all countries, at their own time zone, between 20:30 and 21:30, and will involve, according to their organizers, more than one billion people.
Last year it began in the Chatham Islands, about 800 miles east of New Zealand, and covered step by step across six continents, from Mongolia to Antarctica, keeping pace with the rotation of the Earth.

The  Earth Hour

Globally, the action is coordinated by the World Conservation Organization (WWF, according to its acronym in English) and locally by the World Wildlife Fund.
The measure not only aims to save energy, though it entails-but above all, create a space for thinking about preserving the environment, getting people involved in these problems and promote personal actions, group and government, to curb their degradation.

"Earth Hour" was born in Sydney, Australia, in 2007 and then called two million people just in that country.
In 2008 were more than 50 million people in about 400 cities synchronized blackout, which left without lights in buildings like the Sydney Opera, the Coliseum in Rome, the City Hall in London, the Empire State Building in New York, the Tower of Sears in Chicago, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Golden Gate in San Francisco.
In 2009, more than 60 countries were involved in the blackout to combat global warming, with the message that they can act individually with small changes in everyday life, such as replacing ordinary light bulbs with fluorescent lights or low-power .

The Hour fot the Planet

2010, and had joined the blackout 1,500 cities in 128 countries on six continents, and were more than 1,300 monuments and landmarks of major cities in the world held in darkness for an hour. But this year, Earth Hour wants to beat his own record of participation and involve more than one billion people on six continents.

Environmentalists predict that, to continue the present status quo, the global warming could cause the extinction of 35% of terrestrial wildlife by 2050. Also, does carry deep floods and droughts, climate change increasingly threatening as the production performance and life of people.
For that reason and because it is necessary to engage world leaders in concrete policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, it is expected that this time more than one billion people will join the symbolic gesture of turning off the light on Saturday, eight and a half to half past nine p.m., in the certainty that the planet is well worth it.