Earth Hour: Switch Off Lights At 8.30 Tonight To Shape A Bright Future For All

Earth Hour shows us how each of us can be heroes for our planet, our home.

Our actions today can change our tomorrow – so together, let’s change Climate Change.

Earth Hour takes place at 8.30 pm local time across the globe on the last Saturday of March. Tonight, non-essential electric lights will be turned off from 8.30 to 9.30 pm.

It’s an initiative to encourage individuals, businesses and governments around the world to take accountability for their ecological footprint and engage in dialogue and resource exchange that provides real solutions to our environmental challenges.

One of the world’s largest grassroots movements for the environment, Earth Hour began in 2007 at Sydney. Interestingly, it’s being observed since 2007 in Bhubaneswar also.

In 16 years, a lot has been witnessed in terms of acceptance as well as rejection of ideas with a view to being self-sufficient in electricity. The public and leaderships have gradually began to accept the importance of Earth Hour and started to believe it is more than switching off power.

Thus Earth Hour is no more to Bhubaneswar.

Hundreds of millions of people around the globe take part in Earth Hour every year. As a symbolic gesture of solidarity to show they care about our planet and its future, people in more than 7,000 cities across 190 countries switch off their lights for 60 minutes.

The aim is to spark global conversations on impacts of climate change and inspire sustainable action to protect our world. By working together, we can help shape a bright future for all.

So tonight, take time out for nature and join the global community of millions supporting stronger action on climate change. As the world stands at a climate crossroads, it is powerful yet humbling to think that our actions today will decide what tomorrow will look like for generations to come.

Let us do something in our cities, villages, neighbourhoods for this global cause. Our lifestyles have a huge impact on the planet, but we can reduce our environmental footprint through everyday actions. Even this symbolic act of switching off non-essential lights for an hour will help support and raise awareness on growing effects of extreme climate change and other urgent issues facing our planet.

Loss of nature has resulted in catastrophic weather events, locusts plague, wildfires. These are some glaring examples of nature sending us an SOS call. The good part is that we can make small changes in our lives that can have the power to make a big impact on our natural world. We must take time out for our planet as our environment continues to degrade at an alarming pace.

As we know, every hour around hundreds of trees are being chopped somewhere in our cities for road-widening, waterbodies are going missing, canals losing identity. Trees are the lungs of our planet and water and bodies its kidneys, and we need them to help reverse the impacts of climate change.

Now is the time to press pause and work together to protect nature and restore what we have lost. So make the time — whether its 60 seconds, 60 minutes or beyond the hour — to reflect on the incredible benefits nature provides us and create a better future for the planet and its people.