Environment and Sustainability Team

Earth Hour

This year St. John's will be participating in Earth Hour. Earth Hour was started by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and partners as a symbolic lights-out event in Sydney in 2007.  Held every year on the last Saturday of March, Earth Hour engages millions of people in more than 180 countries and territories, switching off their lights to show support for our planet. 

Earth Hour Schools Day is being held the day before on Friday 27 March.  At St John’s, the Environment and Sustainability Team has registered to be one of the many schools to take action and switch off the lights. St John’s and people all around the world are switching off their lights to call attention to climate change.

We will countdown together across the globe to celebrate Earth Hour and take one iconic action: switch off the lights. But it is so much more than that. It is a symbol of unity. It is a symbol of hope. It is a symbol of power. The power that we all have to ACT NOW.

Environment and Sustainability Team 

Patrick, Marco, Cohen, Basti, Julie, Cheryl and Melinda

Environment and Sustainability Team