Earth Hour 2009 to be Much Bigger than 2008
Earth Hour 2009 will be at least 3 times bigger than 2008 with more than 76 cities officially participating. These before/after photos were taken during Earth Hour 2007 in Sydney. Photo: madradish.
Earth Hour 2009 stands to be the biggest Earth Hour to date. Last year, 26 cities officially participated in Earth Hour. The current count for 2009 is almost 3 times that figure - and we’re still more than 3 months away from the event.
Furthermore, organizers anticipate that over 1 billion people will take part in 2009 - up from 50 million in 2008. This is largely due to China’s involvement in 2009, where populous cities such as Beijing and Shanghai will participate
The official number of cities to participate in Earth Hour 2009 currently stands at 76 cities.
Official Cities To Particpate In Earth Hour 2009
Here are the cities currently listed for participation in Earth Hour 2009. Note that this figure is sure to increase over the coming months as more cities are announced.
Australia
- Adelaide
- Brisbane
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Hobart
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Sydney
Bolivia
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Bulgaria
- Sofia
Canada
- Toronto
China
- Beijing
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai
Costa Rica
- San Jose
Denmark
- Aalborg
- Copenhagen
- Odense
Federated States of Micronesia
- Ponphei
Fiji
- Suva
Finland
- Espoo
- Helsinki
Guatemala
- Guatemala City
Italy
- Bologna
- Florence
- Milan
- Naples
- Palermo
- Rome
- Turin
- Venice
Jordan
- Amman
Mexico
- Mexico City
New Zealand
- Auckland
- Christchurch
- Hamilton
Norway
- Oslo
- Tromso
- Trondheim
Phillipines
- Manila
Poland
- Gdansk
- Lodz
- Poznan
- Torun
- Warsaw
Portugal
- Lisbon
Russia
- Moscow
- Petropalovsk-Kamchatsky
Singapore
- Singapore City
South Africa
- Cape Town
Sweden
- Ekero
- Gothenberg
- Kalmar
- Kiruna
- Lilla Edet
- Malmö
- Mullsjo
- Nassjo
- Norrkoping
- Orebro
- Sodertalje
- Ulricehamn
- Vaxjo
- Ystad
Turkey
- Istanbul
United Arab Emirates
- Abu Dhabi
- Dubai
- Fujairah
- Sharjah
United Kingdom
- London
United States
- Chicago
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- Miami
- Nashville
Note that China has already indicated that more chinese cities will be announced in the future.
About Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour is a global WWF climate change initiative. Individuals, businesses, governments and communities are invited to turn out their lights for one hour on Saturday March 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM to show their support for action on climate change.
Tags: Climate Change, earth hour, low carbon, Sustainability
January 16th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Kudos for spreading the word and supporting Earth Hour. We are working hard on EH 2009, so stay tuned!