Philippines: Top 1 in Earth Hour 2009

For 60 minutes Saturday night (March 28) , a recorded all-time high of 650 cities switched off its lights for Earth Hour, placing the Philippines as the top participant in the event, an official of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said.

According to WWF communications officer Gregg Yan, there are more than 15 million Filipinos in 650 major towns and cities from distant islands participated. The Philippines also placed first in town and city participation out of the 88 countries among 25 different time zones. Philippines even defeated Australia."

Australia is among the proprietor of Earth Hour, launched on March 31, 2007. This year, Australia placed third with a total of 309 towns and cities.Greece placed second with 484 participating towns and cities.

It is the second time the country has participated in the Earth Hour event and Yan attributed the success of this year to social networking.

Source: Inquirer