Lights Out for Earth Hour 2017

Writing about & planning my own personal Earth Hour is an annual tradition since 2009.  With it being only a week away, it's time to ring that traditional bell!

This year's Earth Hour is Saturday, March 25th from 8:30--9:30 pm in your time zone. It marks the 10 (or really, would that be 11?) year anniversary since the first Earth Hour in 2007, celebrated in Sydney, Australia alone. From there it has grown, to become a global event, a virtual crowd-wave of diminished lights to show the number of people, communities, nations, and world landmarks that want to "shine a light on climate action" by going dark from that hour in their own time zones.

To learn more about Earth Hour, check out their website to zoom into these specifics to be "enlightened!"

• Sign up & get ideas on how to celebrate.
• Learn more about "Changing Climate Change" at WWF: World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund).
• Ideas on how to "take action" & share the action you've taken.
• Read the 2016 Earth Hour Report.
• Watch the video below to be inspired to take part by turning off your lights.

If you are looking for unique ways to celebrate Earth Hour in a way that speaks to you, check out these two resources:

• WWF's 2016 post: "Earth Hour 2016: 7 Things To Do in the Dark"
• Treehugger's 2008 post: "60 Things to Do During Earth Hour"

However you celebrate it, I'd love to hear about how you took action and were part of the movement to #ChangeClimateChange. Please share your plans in the comments below!




Earth Hour images from http://www.earthhour.org/; Video #1 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7EenLAdrA;