Earth Hour is a moment of planetary listening.

Each Earth Day, just after sunrise in California — where Earth Day was born — and again just after sunrise in the United Kingdom, voices rise with the turning of the Earth.

Ten elders and leading Earth change agents speak for four to five minutes each, offering words shaped by a lifetime of experience — words addressed not only to us, but to future generations.

This is Earth Hour.

Over time, this archive will become a living record of how elders across cultures, disciplines, and generations have understood their responsibility to Gaia and to those yet unborn. Students, educators, communities, and families will be able to return to these voices not as historical artefacts, but as moral companions.

Whole Life Times will return to Earth Hour each year in its January–March issue, reflecting on the most recent gathering, the themes that emerge, and the deeper questions they raise for culture, education, and planetary wellbeing.