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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Earth Hour Day - March 28

*Save Earth and VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm*

Due to growing Global Warming, the World Wildlife Fund has declared March 28 as the Earth hour day. On this day, the World Wildlife Fund will be join hands with citizens, corporates and many companies to calling in for action to save our planet.

You can learn more about Earth Hour at Click here*,

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If you'd like a high level history of Earth Hour, more than 50 million people in 400 cities around the world took part in Earth Hour 2008. The lightsVOTE EARTH went out at Sydney’s Opera House, Rome’s Coliseum, the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. Even the Google homepage went dark for the day. Many major corporations took part including HP, Coca-Cola, and Morgan Stanley.

This year, Earth Hour promises to be even bigger as *India* join hands for the first time. Noted film actor and icon Mr Aamir Khan will be leading the campaign in India. Many companies such as HP, Intel, HSBC, ICICI Bank and Wipro are also supporting the campaign. Cites large and small have said they'll participate including Chandigarh, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune with more signing on daily.

They will join international cities such as Beijing, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, Rome and Toronto. You can view WWF's Video about Earth hour 2009 to get a sense of the magnitude of this event.

 *Don't forget - 28th at 8:30 pm*, turn out, take action.

Thanks and regards

*Save Earth and VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour on Saturday, March 28, 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm*

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