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This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election – between Earth and global warming. The campaign aims to get 1 billion votes for Earth from over 1000 cities, to be presented to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the end of the year. This meeting will determine official policies to address global warming, and participating in Earth Hour is our chance to affect those policies. 1 billion people equates to 1/6th of the world’s population – a petition for unified and urgent action on climate change that is too loud for our world’s leaders to ignore.
How you can participate in Earth Hour:
- Switch off all non-essential lighting on Saturday, 28 March 2009 from 8:30 - 9:30 PM.
- In addition to turning your lights off, you could also unplug appliances that aren’t in use – thereby saving energy that is consumed when appliances like TVs, DVD players, printers, monitors and microwaves are left on ‘standby’.
- Sign up your participation to make sure that your vote is counted. Remember, every vote counts.
- Encourage your friends to participate as well – because actions speak loudest when shared. =)
- Help get the message across about how pressing and real an issue global warming is - and how the little things we do can make a difference. Think about it, talk about it and write about it.
Here are 10 different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint:
1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one
10. Upload your ‘on the night’ photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.
Also, don’t be so quick to turn all your lights back on when the clock strikes 9:30. Earth Hour is not just about reducing greenhouse gas emissions for 1 hour a year; in fact, the organizers of Earth Hour hope that there wouldn’t be a need for an Earth Hour 2010 – if by then awareness about global warming is achieved. We should not just be turning our lights off in order to get our votes in and then leave the task of solving the problem to the world leaders, either. If we are sending a message to our world leaders that we want something done about climate change, we should be looking for ways to address it in our own backyards as well.
As you go around your homes / offices checking for lights and electrical appliances that could be turned off for Earth Hour this weekend, take the time to think if you could have kept them off long before the event – and if you could turn them off more often afterwards. Think of other ways you could reduce your global gas emissions as well (switch to energy-efficient light bulbs, for example). In order to win this fight against global warming, we need to take the time to re-examine our lifestyle and make a conscious effort to change our habits going forward.
Please visit the Earth Hour website to know more about campaign.
