Buildings around the world will go dark for 60 minutes this evening in a voluntary event known as Earth Hour. This grassroots effort was started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, by the Australian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (aka World Wildlife Fund), which encouraged Sydneysiders to show their support for climate action. Since then, it’s grown into a global movement to raise awareness of our energy consumption and the effects of climate change on our planet.
Here’s why landmarks are going dark
Today in History
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Kjell Henriksen Observatory
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Eastern grey kangaroos in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park
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Trunks stick together
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Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
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An Alpine fairy-tale castle
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Papa was a flightless bird
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Working for that cliffside view
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At ease, it’s Armed Forces Day
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Wanderin Wawayanda
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It’s Napping Day
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Hey, don t you guys have somewhere to be?
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Día de los Muertos celebrations in Mexico
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Haaga Rhododendron Park
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World-class art comes to Arkansas
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Feast of the Donkey
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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A duckling swimming in a water meadow, Suffolk, England
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Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Class, please take out a No. 2 pencil…
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Earth Day
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Fiesta at Siesta
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Heron lies the Salton Sea
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Celebrating 30 years of eye-opening images
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World Art Day
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Swimming with the sea cows
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The village of Castelluccio above the Piano Grande, Umbria, Italy
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Shadows on the solstice
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World Art Day
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Sitting down and taking a stand
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Tigh Mor Trossachs on Loch Achray, Scotland