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What Are You Doing For Earth Hour?

Liz — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:43:16 +0000

On the 26th of March at 8:30pm (your local time), Earth Hour will sweep around the globe as people switch off their lights and celebrate a worldwide commitment to protect our planet.

This year, when the lights go back on, please think about what you can do beyond the hour to contribute to a more sustainable future.

You Don’t Have To Be Irish To Be Green

Liz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:40:00 +0000

Happy St Patrick’s Day to Everyone !

In honor of this historically green day, I decided to continue sharing ways to lower your Carbon Footprint on this beautiful planet. In Wikipedia, a Carbon Footprint is defined as:

“the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product” (UK Carbon Trust 2008). An individual, nation or organization’s carbon footprint is measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it.

Why would you want to reduce the size of your Carbon Footprint?

Lowering your carbon footprint, is believed to help reduce the affects of Global Warming. Although, there is much controvery about whether Global Warming is really taking place or not, I feel that is pretty much irrelevant to the issue of our carbon footprint.

My thoughts on that is, IT DOESN’T MATTER, either way. Because, the positive actions taken to reduce your carbon footprint and/or positively affect Global Warming, are all good things. Pulling less fuel resources from the planet, reducing electrical consumption, recycling, reducing & reusing, benefits you personally and the planet.

How do you determine what your Carbon Footprint is? There are several online calculators to help you calculate it. There’s one at American Forests website and it is very easy to navigate through. Then, set a goal of how much you’d like to reduce your footprint over the coming year. A realistic goal is 10 percent to start with.

How about sharing this information with some of your friends and having a Green Footprint Challenge? Feel free to post your results and your intended goal, to encourage others who read this post. Let’s work together to stay

GREEN….EVERYDAY !

NOTE: Remember that Earth Hour is only 11 days away.

Earth Hour – March 28th – Join The World

Liz — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:50:00 +0000

In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour – Earth Hour. We’re aiming to reach one billion people, more than 1000 cities, all joining together in a global effort to show that its possible to take action on global warming.

This event is part of WWF’s international campaign to convince governments across the world to agree a strong global deal to tackle climate change, when they meet at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, in December 2009.

A two degree rise in average global surface temperature will have severe social, economic and environmental impacts: 3.1 billion people will suffer serious water shortages; 180 million people will be affected by sea level rise; and approximately 25% of species extinct in present habitat. The world’s leading climate scientists believe that we must reduce greenhouse gas pollution by 25%-40% below 1990 levels if we are to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Earth Hour provides a united global message to every individual, every business and every community that climate change affects us all and to take responsibility in working towards a sustainable future.

Join us for Earth Hour 2009, turn off your lights at 8.30pm Saturday 28 March and sign-up here at earthhour.org/Australia

Earth Hour is a message of hope and a message of action. Everyone can make a difference.

Above taken from WWF-Australia’s website. For more info, please go to www.earthhour.org.