This Saturday, in Madeira and around the world, is Earth Hour, an environmental campaign promoted by the international organization World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that challenges everyone and everything to turn off the switch, for 60 minutes, between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm.
In Funchal, the lights go out on the main facades and inside the Paços do Concelho building, the A Cidade do Açúcar Museum, the Henrique and Francisco Franco Museum and the Natural History Museum, as well as the Baltazar Dias Municipal Theater and the Viveiros building .
Câmara de Lobos joins this planetary movement by turning off the lights in the city center and in the center of the parish of Curral das Freiras. And to involve the community, the municipality launches a challenge to residents to join this initiative by turning off the lights in their homes during the same period.
In Santa Cruz there will be the usual blackout and the traditional race along the municipality’s seafront promenade, while in Calheta there will be walking while the town’s public lighting will be temporarily turned off.
As in previous years, the Madeira Legislative Assembly building will also remain dark in the name of sustainability. Since 2011, the Region’s house of democracy has joined this movement and the president of parliament invites Madeirans and Porto Santos to dedicate 60 minutes to the planet.