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World Earth Hour: Vote with Your Lightswitch!
By Veronica Peterson, Editor, Healthy & Green Living
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election. For the first time in history, people of all nationalities, ages, races and financial status have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote and their voice. World Wildlife Fund is asking individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world to turn off their lights for one hour–Earth Hour–to make a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate commitment to finding solutions.
The goal is to reach 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It a chance for all the people of the world to make their voice heard.
Find out more about this historic event.
March 28, 2009, 8:30-9:30pm Your Local Time
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add your comment »i had a happy earth hour here's how it went. (not i'm not an adult so this might sound weird.
well first of all before it got dark,
i went screamng at cars with my friend Jack.
Then when it got dark i went inside and played monoply with mom and dad
the end
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Humans are mere custodians on earth - to leave the planet a better place that they found it.
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After the Earth Hour, well the good news was that The Philippines ranked the highest number of people who participated the event, of course, through the efforts of the Media and our local churches the people were informed and eventually, it turned out to be a success. However, the bad thing here was how other people negatively responded the event. They were too selfish and uneducated about this matter. Earth Hour was very phenomenal and life-changing to all human race. How I wish they knew the great of benefits of it that by just switching off their lights it would surely make a difference.
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Passed on the info to other like-minded groups and enjoyed the glow of a real fire.
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I turned off everything but the heater and the computer. It felt good to do something so easy which had such a big impact. I sat at the computer and watched a website which showed the photos around the world of what a city usually looks like at night compared to what it looked like during earth hour. What a great idea!
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I switched off TV,lights and computer...but I didn't unplug them. I found out how much light those little lites on them give off. Did not need my flashlight I had handy to see my way around the house. Next year I will unplug electric items and not just switch them off.
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I took action by switching all the lights off in the house and my 3 year old grandaughter who was staying overnight had fun playing in the dark till bedtime.
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it told people about and goodidea and the ecard i gave to people about also
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I listened t my own thoughts,sitting in the dark for 1 hour.
Can't wait to do it again next year!
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My daughter and I sat in the glow of candle light. We started laughing about anything and everything, and forgot about the time! We went well over the hour just laughing!
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