Earth Hour

The Irish Times Earth Hour 2009 Supplement is available for free download. Click here.

2010 Earth Hour Launched in China

LINKS

The international Earth Hour website

The Irish 10:10 campaign

Fact sheet outlining the impacts of Light at Night [LAN]

The Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign

"Earth Hour is absolutely symbolic ... symbolism is an important stage of dealing with a major problem, so I don't think we are ashamed to say that in any way". Andy Ridley, Earth Hour originator.

EARTH HOUR 2010 IS COMING

In 2009, hundreds of millions of people in over 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries throughout the world turned off their lights for Earth Hour, making it the largest climate action in history.

A campaign that started in Sydney, Australia, three years ago has grown beyond the dreams of its originators.

In Ireland, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Galway, Belfast and Dublin helped swell these numbers. John Gormley, Irish Minister for the Environment, called on all local authorities to support Earth Hour. The Office of Public Works darkened Irish flood-lit national monuments - including the Rock of Cashel.

But since then the Copenhagen Climate Change conference was a depressing experience for most who watched or participated - an illustration of humanity’s inability to act.

Earth Hour needs to give power back to the people - to show what can be done through collective actions - and to show where we stand.

Earth Hour aims to give everyone a chance to be part of a powerful global call to action - to reach new audiences, outside of the traditional conservation community. We want to mobilise a broader cross-section of society, building on the growing awareness of environmental accountability for individual actions – and we want it to be fun!

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FIE coordinates Earth Hour here in Ireland for the World Wildlife Fund. Please contact us through the site or on 087 2176316 if you want to help Earth Hour 2010.

‘Earth Hour is an event that is designed to raise people's consciousness, to show people that they can take positive steps to make a difference and to knit together the global community in taking action at the same time.' Carter Roberts, President, World Wildlife Fund

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Minister for the Environment John Gormley and FIE's Tony Lowes at the launch of Earth Hour Ireland 2009 at the EirGrid Control Room in March, 2009. 

"Sometimes we need darkness to see clearly." Italian celebrity stylist Giorgio Armani.