Earth Hour - March 29th 2008, 20:00hrs Local Time, page 1

Calling all ATSers,

Please read the following and do your bit. This was done last year in Sydney and with the help of Facebook and ATS, this year could be much much bigger!
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Who: YOU! Everyone around the world
What: www.earthhour.org...
When: March 29, 2008, 8pm your local time
Where: In your own home and/or workplace
Why: To create AWARENESS about energy consumption

This happens in your home or your workplace at 8pm (your local time) on March 29th WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE WORLD by simply turning off your lights, your TV, your dishwasher, your heating or a/c.

On March 29th, 2008 at 8pm local time Earth Hour will commence ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a POWERFUL MESSAGE about the need for action on global warming.

Be part of making Earth Hour 2008 a huge, global success by telling your friends and family. Remember, every single light makes a statement and makes a difference.

Last year, on 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney (Australia) businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.

Pledge your support for Earth Hour and find out more about the lights-out campaign at earthhour.org, the official website. www.earthhour.org...
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-All of the above text taken from Liz Van Gerven's event on Facebook.



Please flag and create awareness throughout the HUGE ATS community.

Thank you.

50/50

[edit on 27-3-2008 by fiftyfifty]

reply to post by fiftyfifty

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Good day fiftyfifty.

It's a shame how little interest people have in the environment when it is something that affects us all.

I totally agree with you. The problem IMO is what you and the article suggest, actually takes some inititave to accomplish. It's sad that most would rather read about what someone is doing instead of actually doing there part.

I for one will participate,and i hope more decide to take action as well

Flag and a star for you.

reply to post by ignorant_ape

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That's an ignorant way way of looking at it in my opinion. Maybe it has some truth in it for some people but the whole exercise is about creating awareness. If this really takes off and a huge amount of electricity is saved people will hopefully see the importance of switching off lights when they are not needed. It is small changes like this that on a mass scale make a HUGE difference.

I now do all my washing at 30'C, do you know how much energy is saved by reducing the temperature by 10'C? Do you know how much energy is saved by turning your central heating down just 2'C? And how much energy could be saved if everyone changed all of their lightbulbs for low energy ones? I think if you knew, you would be surprised and perhaps make that little extra effort to contribute to the wellbeing of YOUR home which is Earth. Whether you believe climate change is man made or not, a little less pollution in the air that you and your children breath can't hurt can it?

Maybe you, Ignorant Ape, are one of the many people that don't give a monkey's and will do as you please, but there are far more people who do.


[edit on 27-3-2008 by fiftyfifty]

reply to post by ignorant_ape

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Well it is more to raise an awareness,then to actually lower consumption. However since it was already here, i heard there WAS a serious decline in consumption, and since majority watches news and not irons at the time , it saved a little also.

Humans aren't the cause of global warming, but we are contributing to it. The Sun is the cause, every planet in our solar system is warming. Think about this, what is the leading source for heat in our solar system, the Sun, and it is getting brighter every day.

[edit on 27-3-2008 by xnibirux]

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