Earth Hour 2014

Date: 29th of March 2014, Saturday
Time: 1400 – 1600
Venue: HDB Jurong East near Chinese Garden MRT
Earth Hour is a worldwide grass-roots movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). It was first started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their non-essential lights off for one hour as a symbol for their commitment to the planet.
Since then, the event is held worldwide towards the end of March annually. As one of the first open-sourced environmental campaigns, Earth Hour has grown from a symbolic event in one city into a global movement, crowdsourcing actions from individuals, businesses, organisations and governments to generate environmental outcomes.
Earthlink NTU has taken part in Earth Hour for the past years and it has been an important part of our committee. Hence we intend to continue celebrating this world- wide tradition but in a brand-new way which is different from what has been finished in previous years. This year we will organize an outreach programme at South West residential area on 29 March 2014. Prior to the outreach programme, a training workshop will be hosted at NTU for all volunteers of the outreach programme on 22 March 2014.