Earth Hour 2016: Worldwide and in Italy
Earth Hour is an important initiative for giving the Earth a help; climate changes are a problem we must be aware of and, as Leonardo DiCaprio remembered, we cannot take this planet for granted , we have just this one.
Thus, worldwide, for the entire day of March 19th, at 20.30 o’clock according to the different time zones, a “shining shadow” will cover the world, starting in the Pacific Ocean and stopping on the Atlantic coasts. For an hour, people and public institutions will turn off the lights of houses and buildings to say stop to the climate change. The initiative was launched by Wwf in 2007, this year it sounds particularly strong thanks to the climate agreement obtained at Paris’ meeting in December.
It has been calculated that 366 monuments and symbolic places will be turned off, such as Empire State Building in New York, Opera House in Sydney, Eiffel tower in Paris.
As for Italy, (altro…)