Volume 32 Issue 8 24 Mar 2023 2 Nisan 5783

Earth Hour

Arielle Melamed – Sustainability Va’ad

Earth Hour 
Saturday 25 March 2023 at 8.30 pm

Earth Hour beg­­­­­­­an in Sydney in 2007, when over 2.2 million Australians turned off their lights for an hour to express concern to a climate-sceptic government. Sixteen years later it has since become a worldwide movement. In 2022, hundreds of millions of people across over 190 countries took part in Earth Hour, making it one of the largest environmental campaigns in the world – a call to action and a symbolic show of solidarity to saving our planet.  

This Earth Hour, Friday 24 March 2023 in schools and Saturday 25 March 2023 at 8.30 pm across Australia, we ask Emanuel School families to be among the millions ‘switching off’ to demonstrate our commitment to climate action. 

We need to take time out for our planet. Our environment continues to degrade at an alarming pace. Eastern Australia is among the 24 global deforestation fronts, and we are the only developed nation on this list.

An estimated 200,000 trees are bulldozed in Australia every day. That’s 8,000 trees every hour.

Trees are the lungs of our planet, and we need them to help reverse the impacts of climate change. Now is the time to press pause and work together to protect nature and restore what we have lost.

The hour we dedicate as Earth Hour (and further time we take to switch off our devices) provides an opportunity to reflect on the incredible benefits nature provides us, and work towards creating a great future for people and the planet. 

So, whether it’s 60 seconds, 60 minutes or beyond the hour, this Friday 24 March 2023 and Saturday 25 March 2023, let’s take the #TimeOutForNature.