Turnning off ledlighting–Earth goes dark for an hour

Switch off the lights for one hour – at the evening of 8:30 March 23th, Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangshou and so on, many buildings shut off lighting for one hour, or tune weak indoor ledlighting. Commonly response by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Global Initiative “Earth Hour activities.

Turnning off ledlighting--Earth goes dark for an hour

Along with the breaking of the night in the city, people feel the power of environmental protection in the beautiful dark.

“Earth goes dark for an hour” to “every Monday all together for the saving”

On July 23rd 8:30 Nanjing. 100 Building, located in the center of an international financial center, the Deji Plaza landscape lights stop flashing. With the lights directive issued to control buildings with the remote computer system,  located in Zhongshan Road, Central Road, Central, Xuanwu Lake Area, more than 300 buildings in the Olympic Sports Center, successive extinguished landscape ledlighting.

At the same time, Yangzhou Wenchang Pavilion landscape lights all went out, Yangzhou municipal government, Guangling government, office lights and appliances are in a dormant state.

Without the glare of the spotlight, no bombing sense of electronic musical instruments, Yangzhou Guangling College students hold a candle to illuminate playground corner of the Earth with an innovative way for one hour listening. About hundred Yangzhou riding Friends, adopt cyclist unique way to participate in “Earth an Hour”.

Yan Jianhua teacher High School Affiliated to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, shut down the home computer, TV. And the fourth-grade daughter take out of the flute, gently blowing Haydn’s “Serenade”, a family enjoy the warm night.

Previously, many users use micro-blogging countdown Relay, advocating reducing consumption, energy saving and environmental protection. Many people said to turn off unnecessary power, stop playing games, stop brush micro-blogging, and to contribute our strength for environment.

What will you do when earch go dark for an hour? “Happy network initiated voting,” chat “with your family, make a phone call to a distant friend” both two things will become the most willing things to do.

“Earth go dark for an hour” campaign officially enter into China, this is the first five years. In addition to the previous years, this year launched a newe theme: “I do the green guess”

Switch off ledlighting for one hour, but environmental protection is not rather than this step

With the advent of the haze, water pollution, environmental issues particularly affects the people.

“Switch off lights only need one hour, but environmental protection is rather than this step,” If you say, “Earth go dark for an hour” campaign is an annual reminder, it is more thing to think about: In addition to ledlighting switch off, what can we do?

Switch off ledlighting for one hour, but environmental protection is not rather than this step

“Lights off is not only saving how much electricity, primarily, it hopes to inspire the public’s aspirations and actions to protect the Earth and environment.” The Nanjing Urban Management Bureau cityscape Deputy Director Liu Xiaoli think, whether to use the energy-saving appliances, or conserve water, garbage classification, even if plant a flowers, all are an environmentally friendly action declaration. Since 2010, Nanjing, almost no increase in the new landscape lights. The original landscape lights as much as possible to switch to energy-saving lamps, luminaries. In peacetime, in addition to important festivals, we enable only the top of the building, such as a small amount of landscape lights – both for energy conservation, but also can reduce the ledlighting pollution.

On March ‘Earth goes dark for an hour’, on June, 5th ‘World Environment Day’, the second half of the ‘Car Free Day’ all are the philosophy of environmental protection publicity windows. The more important is that everyone should have sustainable philosophy of environmental protection. “the Yangzhou Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau Xuanjiao Chu Director Niu Li-wen told reporters that the ongoing” green Man Yangzhou City, universal total action “ecological activities cover the whole city, the whole industry. “For example, the star hotel have a change everyday. If the guest agreed to change one by one, then they will get a free laundry return, One this way, everyone will understand ‘the protection of the environment is everyone’s responsibility’, and realized their behavior can also affect the environment, and improve the environment. ”

“Our theme is ‘one is greater than one hundred million’, although the lights switch off, and the activities is just one hour, yet its significance is infinite.” the Yangzhou University philosophor think that, “Earth one hour “is a social topics, environmental topics, it is a scientific topic, so it needs for rational mode of operation.