Earth Hour
A Lights-Out Event for Our Planet
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
Click flashlights, light lanterns, and get ready to turn electric lights out to celebrate Earth Hour! Wherever you are, you can help our planet.
Kids around the world use electric energy to do all kinds of things--adults do, too! From cleaning the clothes we play in, to lighting up our dinner tables, to keeping us warm and toasty when the weather is cold, electricity is a huge part of our lives. Unfortunately, it can also have a big impact on our planet.
Earth Hour--a worldwide movement in support of energy conservation and sustainability--takes place each March and is sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). During Earth Hour, individuals, communities, and businesses in more than 7,000 cities turn off nonessential electric lights for one hour. Across each continent--from the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China to the Statue of Liberty--one small act reminds all of us of our enormous impact on planet Earth.
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For Earth Hour, people turn out the lights "on a Saturday night, at 8:30 sharp, near the equinox in March" as a "pledge to live more sustainably and conserve energy." In the first half of this picture book introduction to Earth Hour, Heffernan describes the many ways that people use energy worldwide, from warming homes to cooking dumpling soup, accompanied by Luu's crisp, cartoony illustrations, which incorporate world landmarks (the Sydney Opera House and Giza Necropolis), assorted landscapes, and people of varying skin tones. Then, "on every continent, millions join together, in quiet celebration, to turn out their lights.... Yet this one hour a year isn't enough." Closing notes more clearly explain Earth Hour's origin, meaning, and purpose, and amplify the text's call to collective action: "Alone we are one.../ but together we have power./ United, we are Earth Hour." Ages 3 7.
