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Pecs to join Earth Hour on March 29 |
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
 The southern Hungarian city of Pecs
will join cities around the world in turning off all lights for
Earth Hour on March 29, the Pecs 2010 management centre said on
Friday.
A total of 30 million people around the world are expected to
turn off all electricity for an hour starting at 2000 in the course
of the action initiated by the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF).
Pecs has decided to join the 300 cities participating in the
scheme because it well fits the programme to promote health and
environmental protection, part of the preparations to Pecs becoming
European Capital of Culture in 2010, said the organisers.
Further details about Earth Hour in Pecs will be announced at a
candle-lit press conference on March 25, the organisers said.
The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney in 2007, when an
estimated 2 million people stopped using electricity for one hour.
(Source: MTI, Image: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, Released under the GNU Free Documentation license)
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