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Set a reminder!!! Turn off the lights for just one hour on March 29th 8:00pm your local time regardless of where you are in the world! Earth Hour United States
Check it out.
Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.
This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour.
World Wildlife Fund's Earth Hour is catching on across America following the tremendous success of last year's event in Sydney, Australia.
This global phenomenon will spread across six continents in 2008, including hundreds of communities like yours in the United States. Chicago will serve as the U.S. flagship city for Earth Hour in 2008, with Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco joining as leading partner cities. B
ut everyone throughout the US and around the world is invited and encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour on March 29 at 8 p.m. local time--whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town. What will you do when the lights are off?
Why not change out those old energy-wasting light bulbs to new, inexpensive and efficient compact fluorescents. Earth Hour is also a great time to consider what you and your family can do in the days and months to reduce emissions and live more sustainably. We have lots of great ideas to get you started. To alter the course of climate change we must act now.
The U.S. is the world's leading emitter of carbon dioxide—over 20 tons per person every year. One person committed to reducing energy consumption can make a difference, and millions of us working together can change the world.
A thought struck me today while I was doing laundry. I've had the same bath towels for nearly 12 years.
That may sound a tad unsanitary to some of you but rest assured I take very good care of my things. In fact I get enormous satisfaction out of prolonging the life my 'things' for as long as an object is useful.
Think about it. Products are purposefully designed to wear out and break down as quickly as is humanly acceptable. Acceptable? When did we accept this? I guess it can be said we accepted it when we bought into it.
But honestly there are no longer legitimate reasons for us to continue 'buying into' this proposition.
For me it is a matter of 'changing my thoughts, changing my mind and most important of all changing my actions'.
As the field narrows and the three primary candidates jockey for position, an often overlooked series of issues remain open for debate (in my humble opinion).
Whether you consider Obama, Clinton or McCain as the front-runner, who is the candidate where we have heard substantive dialogue on issues such as the environment, lasting peace or leadership.
No doubt the candidates have fired missives at one another over less substantive issues such as experience, fear or labels like, “I’m the real conservative candidate” or “I’m for the middle class.” I might ask that you consider the importance of leadership, lasting peace and the environment on our lives today and that of our children.
Who is standing up and taking on the oil industry and considering true viable alternatives to fossil fuel?
Who is talking about unleashing America’s greatest strength, our ingenuity.
Who is pushing the envelope in an effort to possibly launch new industries and countless new jobs for Americans as we lead this change?
On leadership, how many books have been written and how many examples have we seen that show the true value of those skills, traits and behaviors that help form the foundation of true leadership?
Who from amongst this group is poised to step out from the back and truly tackle this job not from one of a great tactician but the individual that can rally people to the causes so critical for our country and the world?
Who will harness the power and influence the job brings to drive the real change the world seeks?
Also, what about lasting peace? No doubt the candidates have all tried to talk tough about war, security and defending freedom (whatever that means).
But again, who is the one trying to cross borders and form consensus where the dialogue moves from spending countless billions on defense and war with its’ huge impact and suffering on human life while taxing the world’s treasuries?
As most issues in life, there are no easy answers but this should not preclude us from asking the tough questions nor is this some idealistic non-reality.
Recent history shows us people like King, Mandela, Einstein, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and even Bono are simply individual citizens that in turn shaped our world.
For example, the Gates foundation (along with Buffet) has quietly become Africa’s leading provider of critical healthcare donating billions and changing the lives of people on the continent.
Einstein who brought together our thirst for knowledge and the power it can have in creating real change and awareness.
And the list goes on.
So, as the election approaches and we hear the constant drumbeat on nonsense, let us step forward and ask some of these tough questions of the candidates.
One person can indeed make a difference.
I realize this doesn't count as 'Green' but I just love when an underdog has his or her day in the spotlight and I love when truth sees the light.
If you have a moment check out 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated' for an eye opening investigation of the way entertainment is rated in this country.
Leave it to the BBC to innovate reality TV. No Waste Like Home is inspirational reality TV at its best!
Britain’s most wasteful families are about to face the shock of a lifetime and a radical shift in living, as they follow Penney Poyzer's advice on how to cut down on waste and save money.
