Friday, April 3, 2009

In the Delhi event "Earth Hour" will become a monthly.

   The Government of Delhi called on the inhabitants of the Indian capital to conduct action "Earth Hour" on the last working day of every month. This was announced April 3 edition of Hindustan Times.
In the course of action "Earth Hour" are for the period from 20:30 to 21:30 extinguish the light in their homes to draw attention to climate change. The last to date global "Earth Hour" was held March 28, 2009.
In Delhi in the shares of an hour had saved 10 thousand megawatts of electricity. The authorities decided to make a monthly event. Already announced that the capital of India, government agencies, as well as some school environmental clubs and trade associations to support the initiative.
Action "Earth Hour" invented the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). For the first time this event has been held in Sydney in 2007. In 2008, an initiative supported by nearly 370 cities in the world. Among the towns that supported the action March 28, 2009, entered Moscow and about two dozen other cities in Russia.

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