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The cities join Earth Hour
An hour without lights around the globe, this Saturday, between 20.30 and 21.30, is the response of the Spanish cities to the call from the FEMP and promoted worldwide by environmental organizations. The sixty-minute blackout in urban spaces and buildings is emblematic places the initiative with which the Spanish municipalities are the local commitment to action against climate change.
Town Hall and town squares across Spain, cathedrals, museums and historic buildings will remain in the dark between 20.30 and 21.30 on Saturday. There are more than a thousand the spaces provided in the almost 200 Spanish municipalities that have signed and noted their participation in the web www.horadelplaneta.es. Provincial capitals and municipalities of all sizes responded to the calls and off the illumination of some of its landmark buildings, a symbolic act, along with others of different nature, seek to show local commitment to climate change: children's games, racing , manifest readings, musical performances, sporting events, lectures, conferences and other activities are provided as reinforcement to the blackout.
In the world are more than 4,000 cities in 130 countries around the world, with the support of "La Hora", the story offered for images "in darkness" of buildings like the Burj Dubai in Dubai, the building Times Square New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Sydney Opera House, and even some of the most representative casinos of Las Vegas.
Earth Hour, which since 2008 brings together actions to show commitment against global climate change has already been proposed to individuals and organizations around the world with a call to "darken" the planet for an hour. The initiative began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million people switched off lights in an act of protest against climate change.
