Earth Hour

 

Every year during Earth Hour, millions of people around the world join together to highlight the urgent need to address climate change. But this year, something is different.

For the first time in the fight against climate change, momentum is on our side. In December, leaders from 196 nations heeded the world’s collective call to act together with urgency to address climate change.

We have reached a turning point, but we still need your support to secure a low-carbon world. We know that it will take collective action from everyone—governments, businesses, communities and individuals—to turn the tide and stop the worst effects of a warming world.

Let’s keep the momentum going. On March 19 join the world in a historic lights-out display by turning off all non-essential lights at 8:30 p.m. your local time and recommit to the fight against climate change. Together, we can tackle climate change and create a future where people and nature thrive.

World Sleep Day

 

World Sleep Day is annually celebrated on Friday of the second full week in March. Originally this holiday was celebrated on March 14, but later it's date became movable.

The first World Sleep Day observation took place in 2008. The holiday was established by the World Sleep Day Committee of the World Association of Sleep Medicine aiming to celebrate the benefits of good and healthy sleep.

World Sleep Day features various events, like discussions, presentations, exhibitions etc. They are held to raise public awareness of social, medical and educational aspects of sleep problems. Sleep disorders and their prevention are paid particular attention and international health organizations remind people about the problems of lack of sleep and insomnia, calling humanity to a healthy way of life. More than 10% of the population of developed countries suffer from insomnia, and every second person on Earth has one or more symptoms of sleep disorders.

World Sleep Day helps not only raise awareness of sleep disorders. It also constitutes, that problems of sleep have reached the level of global epidemic and it threatens health and quality of life of as much as 45% of world's population