Earth Hour

Earth Hour Introduction

In a campaign initiated by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), more than 1 billion people from over 1,000 cities in 125 countries and territories around the world switched off their lights for one hour between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Three Gorges Project during Earth Hour

On the 31st of March of 2012, China Three Gorges Group has blacked out in Beijing, Yichang, Chengdu and Jinshajiang for an hour. All of the lights were turned off since 8:30-9:30. Besides that, there are many posters and written proposals made by Three Gorges Group to introduce the Earth Hour Introduction activity.

Three Gorges Project Group's Introduction

Three Gorges Project Group is a large enterprise unit for water and electricity, wind power, and solar energy. Since 2011, Three Gorges Project Group began to propagandize the Earth Hour for protecting our earth environment and resource.

Three Gorges Project Introduction

Since the beginning of Three Gorges Project, Three Gorges Project is aimed at energy saving and emission reduction, low carbon and environmental protection.

Three Gorges Project is called as the largest water conservancy and hydropower project of the world. There are many benefits on flood control of Yangtze River, control, power generation and navigation.

Besides that, as for the ecological influence of Three Gorges Project, the experts of Yangtze River Commission hold the five opinions: influence on the climate, influence on the water temperature and quality, influence on the animal and plant resources, influence on the aquatic organism and influence on the Human health.

On the 26th October of 2010, the water of Three Gorges Reservoir increases to 175 meters, which reaches the construction standard of Three Gorges Project.

This articel is from Meiyatravel.