An hour tonight for Earth: 8:30-9:30 P.M.

Can you spare even just 60 minutes tonight, from 8:30-9:30 P.M., to join the whole world observe this year’s EARTH HOUR?

Everyone all over the world (including you/your family/neighbors/friends/school and officemates/others), are asked to switch off your lights at this designated hour tonight.

Would you like to join the rest of the world care and protect our Earth even just for an hour tonight? Can you share your time to do something positive in turn for Mother Earth even just for this hour tonight?

Organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Earth Hour started as a lights-off event in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 2007. Earth Hour has since gone global, with the number of participating countries/individuals/ businesses/communities increasing through the years.

At the designated Earth Hour, all lights are switched off, to allow our Earth to breathe less carbon dioxide, use less oil-based energy, take an hour break from the pressure of global warming and nature loss.

Why celebrate “The Biggest Hour for Earth” tonight?

These timely reminders, these urgent reasons for us all (https://www.earthhour.org/):

“We are now at a tipping point with our climate and nature crises, putting at risk the fate of our one home, all our futures.

“We are on course to breach by 2030 the 1.5°C global temperature increase limit set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

“Nature - the source of our very livelihoods and one of our biggest allies against the climate crisis - is also under severe threat, facing alarming/unprecedented rates of loss globally.

“The next few years are therefore crucial to all our futures - we have to stay under the 1.5°C climate threshold to avoid irreversible damage to our planet, and, we need to reverse nature loss by 2030, ending the decade with more nature than we started, not less.

“To make this happen, individuals/communities/businesses/governments must all urgently step up their efforts to protect and restore our one shared home.

“With this 2030 goal in mind, we too must step things up.

“So in 2023, we’re breathed new life into Earth Hour - our brand, our work, our message, and our mission - creating the Biggest Hour for Earth. How?

“By calling on our supporters across the globe to switch off their lights and give an hour for Earth, spending 60 minutes doing so something - anything - positive for our planet.

“Amidst our increasingly divided and polarized societies, the Biggest Hour for Earth becomes a precious moment of unity, reminding the world that our one shared home needs our help and that we all can – and must - play a part in protecting it.”

What other positive protective steps and actions can we share for our earth tonight, on this 20th anniversary of Earth Hour?

Check out online links for inspiring creative yet simple, doable contributions that you/everyone can share to protect our one and only Mother Earth.

One option is to know more about the problems plaguing our planet but, more importantly, learn about solutions for protecting our earth. We also need to recognize that we, humans, are the problem yet the solution as well for both climate crisis and nature loss.

Individually, we can choose, decide, and commit to protect our earth.

Do you know that by simply reducing daily meat/dairy intake, we reduce our eco-unfriendly impact on our planet, that a “high-fiber/plant-based diet is also better for health, and replacing meat with protein-rich pulses can also be cost-effective?”

We can also cut back on travel (by air/car/bus), on consumption/waste, and our energy use, among other contributions.

Collectively, we must also band together locally/globally and allow “our voices to be heard by those in power.”

Tonight’s Earth Hour invites us all to seriously ponder how best to protect our earth individually/collectively.