Earth Hour 08'

from wikipedia.org
Origin

Earth Hour, under the working title 'the big flick', was conceived by members of WWF-Australia's communication team in December 2005 as a possible campaign to engage all parts of the Australian community on the need to address climate change.

A partnership was formed in August 2006 between WWF-Australia's Andy Ridley, Leo Burnett's Nigel Marsh and Fairfax Media's Phil McLean with a planned campaign date of early 2007. Earth Hour was launched publicly as a Sydney-only event on December 16 2006 by Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore and took place at 7.30pm on March 31 2007.

Following significant interest from both inside Australia and around the world, Earth Hour was formed into a non-profit entity owned by WWF-Australia, Leo Burnett and Fairfax Media. The decision was taken to make Earth Hour an open source model, allowing any genuinely interested individual, company, media or government anywhere in the world to adopt the campaign for 2008.


This is an event that participating countries is said to switch of their power for one hour in order to help the earth due the the alarming rate of global warming around the world....

Sort of a "protest" against global warming.....An awareness campaign so-to-speak

It is said to save at least 10% decrease of consumption of energy......Last year's Earth Hour, 68,506 individuals and 2,270 businesses registered their intention to participate on the Earth Hour website. It was also part of a wider awareness campaign that aimed to reduce Sydney's carbon emissions by 5%......

This year, All over the continent, more and more countries has join in the Earth Hour 08'.....Countries like, Australia, Philipines, Thailand, Canada to name a few has made their strong stand against golbal warming.....

How about for the individual of you and me with all the ah beng and ah lian you say??

Well, it's simple....

On 29th March 2008, at 8.00pm (Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong time), All you have to do is just switch off every electrical appliances for one hour (No playing facebook that time.....) then leaving them on stand-by....

Think off it, By conserving energy for one hour, this how much you save on your electric bills....

So, everyone, do your part for our earth as you future generations also need to leave in it....So, don't be so selfish and only think about youself....

Cheers!!!!!