Earth Hour: A Lights-Out Event for Our Planet by Bao Luu, Nanette Heffernan
Published by Charlesbridge Publishing on January 21, 2020
ISBN: 1580899420
Pages: 32
Genres: Non-Fiction
Format: Picture Book Nonfiction
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One of the most difficult parts of dealing with our climate crisis is explaining it to kids in a way that doesn’t make them shut down and feel helpless and overwhelmed (I suppose that’s true for everyone, not just kids). Earth Hour is about an event I had no idea existed but from now on my family will be taking part in it. Every year around the equinox in March, people across the world turn off their lights at 8:30 p.m. for one hour. It’s an international energy conserving effort that started in Sydney, Australia and has spread worldwide. I love that this simple act can unite us all and draw attention away from the sheer enormity of climate change and toward what we can do if we work together globally. More information at www.earthhour.org

Reviewed by Sarah Maciejewski, Patten Free Library, Bath