{"id":2412,"date":"2014-03-20T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-03-20T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:00:11","slug":"earth-hour-2014-with-acacia-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/earth-hour-2014-with-acacia-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Hour 2014 with Acacia Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 8:30pm on Saturday the 29th of March, millions of people around the globe will be switching off their lights for Earth Hour as a symbolic act of global unity. This is an opportunity for everyone to come together and make a commitment to preserving our planet, the event building awareness and giving us a better understanding of our own impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<div>It was started and formed by the World Wide Fund and has grown from a single event in Sydney, Australia in 2007, to a global phenomenon. In 2014 it is set to take place across six continents and in more than 4,000 cities and towns worldwide; and with a significant number of international cities participating this year, Earth Hour is poised to become one of the largest voluntary power downs in history.<\/div>\n<p>33 finalists from 14 participating countries were selected from among the 163 entrants in this year\u2019s Earth Hour City Challenge for sustainable city management, and Cape Town &amp; Durban in South Africa were named finalists. In the end, Cape Town was selected as South Africa\u2019s Earth Hour Capital, the city competing against the 32 other finalists from around the world. An expert jury will now review the actions and initiatives made in these cities and ultimately identify one sustainability leader per country for the National Earth Hour Capital Award. And, just one of these cities will be awarded the title of Global Earth Hour Capital 2014 for outstanding sustainability efforts. The winner will be announced in Vancouver prior to Earth Hour.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Mother City, Cape Town on one of the many tours we have on offer: \u00a0<a title=\"Coast to Cape Town - CTC8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_small_groups\/coast_to_cape_town_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>8-day Coast to Cape Town<\/strong><\/a> and the<a title=\"Kruger to Cape Town - KTCT17\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_small_groups\/kruger_to_cape_town_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> 17-day Kruger to Cape Town<\/strong><\/a> Small Group Safaris. On the overland side the <a title=\"Cape Desert Safari (Southbound) - SCDS12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_overland\/cape_desert_safari_southbound_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>12-day Cape Desert Safari<\/strong><\/a>, <a title=\"Desert Tracker - DTR19\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_overland\/desert_tracker_19_days_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>19-day Desert Tracker<\/strong><\/a> and then a longer overland expedition &#8211; the <a title=\"Kenya to cape Town - KTC43\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/acacia_overland\/kenya_to_cape_town_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>43-day Kenya To Cape Town <\/strong><\/a>. Even better, \u00a0Why not add on a <a title=\"Cape Town City Stay - CCS4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/short_breaks_and_city_stays\/cape_town_city_stay_2014.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>4 day Cape Town city stay<\/strong><\/a> to join in with the full festive unity and to support Cape Town in winning the &#8216; Global Earth Hour capital of 2014&#8217; .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=1847\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1847\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1847\" alt=\"thumbnail_sml\" src=\"https:\/\/acacia-africa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thumbnail_sml.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blog written by:<a title=\"Michelle Lewis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acacia-africa.com\/mtt_details.php?id=1298446973\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Michelle Lewis<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Acacia Sales &amp; Marketing department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8:30pm on Saturday the 29th of March, millions of people around the globe will be switching off their lights for Earth Hour as a symbolic act of global unity&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,32,33,18],"tags":[124,128,193,249,301,319,337,363],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-about-acacia-africa","category-acacia","category-overland","category-small-group-safari","category-south-africa","tag-conservation","tag-culture","tag-global-unity","tag-local-responsible-travel","tag-overlanding","tag-responsible-tourism","tag-save-our-planet","tag-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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