The Ferris wheel at Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier will join other international landmarks including Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong, and the Parthenon at the Acropolis in Greece, in turning off lights for one hour on March 23, for the 2013 Earth Hour campaign, “I Will if You Will.”
“Pacific Park has made an ongoing commitment to participate in Earth Hour each year to help raise environmental awareness,” said Jeff Klocke, vice president of marketing and administration at Pacific Park. The Ferris wheel lights will be out from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The world’s only solar-powered Ferris wheel features 160,000 energy-efficient LED bulbs, which provide 75 percent greater energy savings than most incandescent bulbs. The park introduced the world’s first wind-powered amusement park game, the High Striker, in October 2011.
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