What its all about

It’s as simple as a flick of the switch.

What began as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour – Earth Hour. We’re aiming to reach one billion people, more than 1000 cities, all joining together in a global effort to show that its possible to take action on global warming.

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning their lights off for one hour. Only a year later and this event had become a global sustainability movement with up to 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

Earth Hour 2009 is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up, to take responsibility and to get involved in working towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to The Americas will stand in darkness. People across the world will turn off their lights and join together in creating the vital conversation about the future of our precious planet.

Over 64 countries and territories are participating in Earth Hour 2009. This number grows every day as people realise how such a simple act, can have such a profound result in affecting change.

Earth Hour is a message of hope and a message of action. Everyone can make a difference.

Join us for Earth Hour 2009, turn off your lights at 8.30pm Saturday 28 March and sign-up here at earthhour.org

Earth Hour Launched !! [Press Release]

PRIME MINISTER ENDORSES GLOBAL EFFORT:
WWF’S EARTH HOUR

Kuala Lumpur, 10th December 2008: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi indicated his support and endorsement of Malaysia’s participation in Earth Hour 2009. To date, 74 cities in 62 countries have committed to switch off for WWF’s Earth Hour in 2009. WWF-Malaysia is currently discussing the potential participation of Malaysian cities in Earth Hour 2009 with relevant authorities. The campaign, which hopes to reach out to more than one billion people in 1,000 cities around the world, asks individuals, businesses and governments to switch off lights for just one hour on Saturday, 28th March 2009 at 8:30pm to create a platform of support for action on climate change.

Earth Hour aims to demonstrate unprecedented solidarity and provide a visual global mandate that will put the heat on world leaders meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009 to strike a new global deal on climate change.

The lights out initiative, which began in Sydney in 2007 as a public awareness raising campaign, has grown significantly over the past two years and now has 74 cities ready to flick the switch in 2009. Cities already committed include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Rome, Manila, Oslo, Cape Town, Warsaw, Lisbon, Singapore, Istanbul, Mexico City, Toronto, Dubai and Copenhagen.

Some of the international icons which will go dark for an hour in solidarity include the world’s tallest hotel tower (the Burj Dubaiin Dubai), the tallest towers in the Americas (the CN tower in Toronto) and the southern hemisphere (the Sky Tower in Auckland) and Moscow’s Federation Tower. Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf has confirmed his support for Earth Hour while Quirinale - the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano – will also turn its lights off. Other landmarks which plan to merge into the night sky include the normally floodlit Table Mountain over Cape Town, South Africa and the Sydney Opera House.

Director General of WWF International Jim Leape said, “When leaders gather in Copenhagen in December 2009 to negotiate a new deal on climate they must feel that the eyes of the world are upon them. Earth Hour provides an opportunity for the public to send a powerful signal that they are watching and expect action.”

Executive Director of Earth Hour Global, Mr Andy Ridley said 2009 was the planet’s ‘destiny year’, with critical decisions needed to be made at the Copenhagen meeting on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, “2009 is the year we decide the future of the earth. It is the year the world finally agrees on a plan to massively reduce carbon emissions across the globe. This is the time to invest in new ways of doing business in a new low carbon economy. We must all step over the line together. The sum of our actions today can change history and secure the future of our planet.”

The extensive WWF conservation network also has more than 30 teams working in countries such as Malaysia, Brazil, Greece, India, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and France, ready to support a local Earth Hour roll out.

If you would like to pledge your support of Earth Hour log on to www.earthhour.org and sign up.

This post has been edited by hfz: Mar 15 2009, 07:57 PM

Admin :

Was wondering, is it possible to pin this topic ?? It will be great if everyone participate in this event. By turning off the light, we can make a difference (Global Warming).

PS : Please ignore me if this request is too much.

Regards

+1...
should be pinned...

Thanks guys, for support this good event

so we malaysian turn off the light at 8pm also??

Yes, but is 2030 (8.30pm) to 2130 (9.30pm) on 28th or March.

Regards

HA!!!! this event really good for our Earth! guys for ur infomation. I will print 1000 high-quality flayer for this event! hope this help for our earth

help the world ! through the very 1st step

haha, just after the week of my exam.. don't have to study inside the dark room..

admin~ pin tis topic~ save d world~~

Haha. Wouldn't you be wasting paper then? Which is not exactly saving the earth.

This post has been edited by jian5481: Mar 16 2009, 01:12 AM

same with me lorgh........

very meaningful.
my room n house electricity will be off since i am on the plane during that time..lol
on plane i will switch of my phone too
but shud really do this often
can save a lot

Actually I sign up a form last year as like on every Monday, off lights from 8 - 9pm for 1 hour to support the event. At that time we requested and collected a lot of signature to show support of this event. It's glad to see this now officially up. Topic will be pin until 28th March then.

Please spread the news out to more people.

i would suggest that the LYN stuff will put this at the red banner at the top of the page to create awareness and shows that the LYN community supports this event.
This is a good and healthy event, totally supports it and thanks mod for pinning this up ...

apa kata shutdown lyn server during the time interval? sanggupkah korang?

This post has been edited by Invince_Z: Mar 16 2009, 08:20 PM

u shud do a mass email spamming
as well as on facebook, myspace or friendster instead of wasting the papers
that would be more practical

err ...read properly ... its lights not shut down everything ....
Earth Hour 2009 << more info

Members, Mods, Admins, firstly thanks for support this event and pinned my thread....

By the way, to those who suggest to put this thread link at the red banner, I support it, although I don't want people know me as a 'over' people....

Once, again, THANKS

How about you dude?
I've already spread this good 'virus' in FB, MS, and will start to spread it in FS...
And, you also can spread it at your place....