Earth Hour 2011

Last March 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM the world switches off their light in participation and support for the “Earth Hour”

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth Hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2011 took place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at participants' local time.

Hopefully the true meaning of the earth hour was spread across nations. Earth hour is not just turning off your lights for an hour and that’s it. The true meaning is going beyond that 60 minutes and to conserve electricity always and support renewable energy sources like solar PV panels, hydro power plants and wind energy

Sydney, Australia

Bangalore, India

Tokyo, Japan

San Francisco, USA

Almost 170 countries participated in all 7 continents making it one of the most successful Earth Hour to date.

Your Global Responsibility

You can say that the Earth had been mother to us all; it has provided everything that we need to survive and thrive as species, but sadly human nature tends to be abusive. We have abused our Earths resources and the environment and when worse comes to worst we cannot blame anybody but ourselves…...

Depletion of the earth reserve is occurring at an alarming rate. It now is the time to act as an individual. If you could just imagine what impact it could bring collectively if we all do everything that we can then we just might have a shot of giving Earth the time it needs to recuperate.

Doing your part to protect the environment is not a daunting task, if you could just make it habit much like how you don’t forget to put on your precious earrings or your gold watch, and then it will be a part of you. For some reason, we have created a notion that going green and being ecofriendly is a sacrifice thus the reason many people don’t take part in it consistently, but the truth is there is no sacrifice involved and you can actually benefit from it.

Simple things like changing your light bulbs to ecofriendly bulbs and turning off anything that is not in use is already contributing to your global responsibility. Taking a walk instead of riding your V6 fuel thirsty car will make a huge impact. While doing so you are saving money from electric bill and you can exercise and keep illnesses way. Again it is a matter of getting into the habit and then it becomes something that you just do.

Ultimately, one of the biggest way that you can benefit is that you can utilize advances in technology for your energy supply……..In Australia they are conducting campaigns for their global responsibility which includes using of solar energy as an alternative clean energy source, rather than the dirty coal burning energy that they get from power grids

Roughly there are about six billion of us today, and if all six billion will do their part we can achieve our goal!