Buildings around the world will go dark for 60 minutes this evening in a voluntary event known as Earth Hour. This grassroots effort was started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia, by the Australian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (aka World Wildlife Fund), which encouraged Sydneysiders to show their support for climate action. Since then, it’s grown into a global movement to raise awareness of our energy consumption and the effects of climate change on our planet.
Here’s why landmarks are going dark
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Chinese New Year
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Ravens
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World Environment Day
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National Park Week: Yosemite National Park, California
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Shining like Klondike gold
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Love on ice
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Travel Sunday: On the Ganges in Varanasi, India
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Peña Roya beech forest, Moncayo Natural Park, Aragon, Spain
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Tokyo welcomes a futuristic new art museum
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World Sea Turtle Day
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A courtyard scene from Spain
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Batten down the hatches
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Nothing plain about it
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Ahh-tumn
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Gardens by the Bay nature park, Singapore
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Step into the dark
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Maya site of Copán
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Kangaroo family for National Hugging Day
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Spring blooms in the Netherlands
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Pollinators: not to be sneezed at
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It’s Draw a Bird Day
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Day
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Forward-thinking women of history
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Galeries Lafayette, Paris
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