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Star Trek symbol appears over London night sky to mark Earth Hour

Paramount Pictures supported this year’s Earth Hour with a special ‘Star Trek’ themed light display ahead of the release of the new film ‘Into Darkness’. In conjunction with Arts Electronica and Futurelab & Ascending Technologies, a fleet of quadrocopters flew into the … Continue reading

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Behind the scenes at Earth Hour 2013

This year for Earth Hour, we decided to run one of the most intense events ever attempted. We wanted to bring the UK together to share the landmark switch-offs from the UK and around the globe, community events and celebrity … Continue reading

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Earth Hour LIVE – as it happened!

This Earth Hour we launched our first ever live streaming event. And you can watch the full hour here! With UK landmark switch-offs, Earth Hour ambassadors pop group McFly performing a live acoustic gig in panda onesies, global highlights your local community … Continue reading

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Earth Hour LIVE! Watch it online tonight

This evening we’ll be launching our first ever live streaming event. With UK landmark switch-offs, Earth Hour ambassadors McFly performing a live acoustic gig in panda onesies, global highlights and local community events. We can’t wait! Join us online from 8.15pm onwards … Continue reading

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WWF’s Earth Hour starts in Samoa

In the first time zone to switch off on 23 March, Samoa, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia have already launched their Earth Hour celebrations in style: 200 cyclists, using only energy efficient lights, took to the streets of Fiji’s Suva … Continue reading

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PM supports young ambitions for renewable energy future

The winners of our Earth Hour 2013 schools challenge, Katy, Ella, and Dylan, gathered outside 10, Downing Street today (Thursday 21 March) to hand over a beautiful 2,000 page book entitled ‘The Power of Nature’. The book contains nearly 2,000 … Continue reading

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Tune in to watch Earth Hour Live on Saturday!

Join us online on Saturday night from around 8.15pm and experience some of the big switch-off events as they happen. We’ll be live streaming landmarks and communities, and also an exclusive live and unplugged gig by our Earth Hour ambassadors … Continue reading

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WWF Wildlife Mobile gives 60 minutes of free calls to celebrate WWF’s Earth Hour

In celebration of WWF’s Earth Hour, WWF Wildlife Mobile is offering an hour of free calls to UK landlines and mobiles. Everyone who signs up for a SIM-only tariff before the end of March will qualify. So now you can … Continue reading

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An exciting new way to support our Beautiful Earth – through your mobile!

We’re always looking for new and exciting ways to share our work and what inspires us. This Earth Hour, we have a brilliant new way to do just that. Through Beautiful Earth we will send our most inspiring images and … Continue reading

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Scottish political leaders support renewable energy

With one week to go before the world’s biggest environmental event in celebration of our planet, Scotland’s political parties have pledged their support for renewable energy. The leaders of the five main political parties (Alex Salmond, SNP; Johann Lamont, Scottish … Continue reading

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