On the night of the time change, the stars should be really visible again. Earth Hour makes people and nature happy. The pictures.
Numerous people, cities and businesses around the world turned off the lights for an hour on Saturday night, including St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, the Kremlin in Moscow and the Torre del Oro in Seville. Also in Switzerland, individual locations responded to WWF’s call to take a position between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.
“Together we are setting a global example for climate protection and a living planet,” says the website of the environmental protection organization WWF, whose Australian branch launched Earth Hour in 2007 together with the city of Sydney.
Record participation in Germany
At this year’s “Earth Hour” there was a record attendance in Germany. For an hour, not only the Brandenburg Gate, Neuschwanstein Castle and Dresden’s Frauenkirche were in darkness, WWF explained. 575 cities and municipalities also participated, along with 448 companies in 716 localities. They all blocked landmarks, town halls, churches, company headquarters and offices for an hour at 8:30 p.m.