Earth Hour 2009

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Count me in….This is one of our ways to show we care about our world…the earth is not without limits…

Spare a moment of your time for Mother Nature….

When we last did it, it was really fun. We played board games by candlelight. Of course then we went out for ice cream.

We'll do it again on Mar 28, along with the rest of the world!

thanks for the video
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Earth Hour is about more than just turning off the lights, it's also an opportunity to turn on young minds.

Educators and parents can download a FREE bilingual resource package for grades 3 to 8 from WWF-Canada's Schools for a Living Planet program at wwf.ca/schools to help students understand Earth Hour and the importance of taking action against climate change.

While climate change can be an overwhelming topic for some – especially if too much emphasis is placed on negative impacts -these curriculum-linked activity sheets focus on positive actions that empower students to become part of the solution.

Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at http://www.commit21.com

Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at http://www.commit21.com/

Wow this is great.. 2.2 million people?

At first, I was an advocate of the Earth Hour campaign but I was turned off by it. I thought that this initiative would TOTALLY eliminate the use of electricity, but the celebration itself negates itself. If WWF alludes to an “all lights-off” as an “all electricity off” activity, I guess this one should have been more systematic on how it's gonna be celebrated. In every venue where it was celebrated, people flocked and witnessed the “turning of the lights” ceremony, but after that, they are still using electricity for their programs right? Like street party? Like a band using their electric guitars jamming in front of the audience. I cannot see now the difference between the partying/celebrating and the lights off, because the saving of electricity by turning off the lights is negated by the electricity being spent for the programs? As it turned out, this one does not tell if greenhouse gas is really decreased in that one hour.

As a conservationist from the Philippines, can we find a way to really make this Earth Hour as an energy saving activity? Can we find a way of celebrating it without still, the use of electricity? I know it's hard to completely erase the use of electricity for one hour, but if that is the real goal of Earth Hour, why can't we do it?

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Thanks for a nice and informative site. Somehow I was drawn to reading the post and I enjoyed a lot. Have a nice day!