Florence turns off landmarks for Earth Hour 2010

The annual Earth Hour is tonight from 8:30pm to 9:30pm.  Earth hour started in Sydney, Australia in 2007 when 2.2 million homes and businesses went dark in effort to make a stand against climate change.  One year later it became a global inituitive to VOTE EARTH and 50 million more people from 35 countries turned off their lights. Now we are at 4000 cities in 88 countries worldwide who are participating this year.

For one hour Florence has decided to turn the lights off the monument the Palazzo Vecchio.  There are also two major hotels that are participating as well the Grand Hotel and The Westin Excelsior.   Other cities in Tuscany are participating too.

1. Pisa–Piazza dei Miracoli and The Leaning Tower
2. Prato–Castello dell’Imperatore  and the Logge di piazza del Comune
3. Arezzo - Monumento of Guido Monaco

And many more…

Francesco Totti reminds us to spegni le luci(turn off the lights).

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“In 2009, 1 million people in 4,000 cities in 83 countries all over the world turned off the lights for 60 minutes.”

Un’ora buio.  (An hour in the dark)

Will you join us?