This Saturday, the whole world will be celebrating Earth Hour (from 8:30pm till 9:30pm), but what exactly is Earth Hour?
The first ever Earth Hour was celebrated in Australia in 2007, when WWF Australia inspired Sydney-siders to show their support for climate change action in the world. The event showed that even CEOs and normal people like us have power to save the world.
in 2008, Earth Hour was planned to take the rest of Australia. But then city of Toronto, Canada signed up, and it wasn't long before 35 countries and 400 cities and towns were part of the event.
When the invitation to "switch off" your lights extended to everyone, Earth Hour has since then became an annual global event.
Last year (2011), Earth Hour saw hundreds of millions of people across 135 countries switch off for an hour. But it also marked the start of something new, "60+",which means going beyond the hour. And through social networks this year, Earth Hour hopes to attract even more participation.
Well, the question is, how are we going to celebrate Earth Hour? Since one of the main ideas of Earth Hour is to "go beyond the hour", here's what EVERYONE can do: Do go beyond the hour. Just because its from 8:30 to 9:30, it doesn't mean you have to stop there. Or maybe even starting earlier. The main point is that that one second that you spend with your lights off not only means that you're aware of climate change, power shortage and all that, but it also means that you're DOING something about it. :D
lesson that i realised:
Don't wait for tomorrow.
Don't wait for next week.
Don't wait for next month.
Don't even wait for Earth Hour.
DO IT NOW.
:) our club's gonna try and organize an Earth Hour for our school ourselves, and if we get to do it, we'll update. POI LAM HIGH, ROAR ROAR ROAR! :D
written by Leo Eros
info source: www.earthhour.org
