Have you heard about Earth Hour 2008? It started in Sydney, Austrailia in 2007 and has spread worldwide this year. To participate all you have to do is turn off your lights for 1 hour at 8pm on March 29th. Simple! Please join in this effort and get as many family members and friends to participate and help send the message! You can show your commitment by signing up at http://earthhour.org/user/tpEb and then send this link to as many people as you can, the more the merrier. You can also learn more about how earth hour started, what it means and the impact something as simple as turning off your lights can make at www.earthhour.org
I think we should try to make earth hour not just a once a year thing and try to do this on a monthly basis, we are going to at our house and I am working on my family members to do the same. There are other simple things you can do everyday to help. Unplug things that are not in use like phone chargers, toaster ovens, toasters, can openers… In Australia these types of electricaly appliances account for about 10% of peoples total power bills so turn off and uplug, you can make a difference
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It’s funny that I only heard about Earth Day a couple weeks ago, and without really knowing it, I’ve been doing these little things like unplugging electronic devices when not in use, leaving the lights off at night and using candles, or even just using my computer monitor as a light source in my own room for a few years now. I found it’s really not that inconvenient at all.