Earth Hour 2010! [27/3/2010]

Well folks, the next Earth Hour is coming soon. For those not in the know, at 8:30pm on March 27th, we switch off our lights for a hour to "vote" our commitment towards environmental efforts. Check the official website here: #-Link-Snipped-#

Looking back at our #-Link-Snipped-#, we saw quite a number of CE participation. Hopefully it'll be a lot more this year! 😀

Last year there was some talk about having a sort of weekly thing that CEans can do to dedicate an hour for environmental efforts. In #-Link-Snipped-# started by CEan Madulga, there was a suggestion in there regarding usage of cloth bags for grocery shopping. My state has recently implemented a policy regarding usage of cloth bags every Saturday in major supermarkets. New plastic bags are not banned, but they are charged this time. It has encouraged people to use cloth bags or reuse old plastic ones.

What other suggestions do you guys have that we can do weekly, for an hour or two?

If things works out, we could do them daily 😛

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  • durga ch
    durga ch

    @durga-TpX3gO • Feb 16, 2010

    * use lesser AIRCON .
    *car shars or infact travel by public transprot. We have a company policy where peopl froms ame locality come together and drive in company transport or even more use bi-cyles for shorter distances.
    *grow one plant per home (only 1 plant to water)

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  • madugula
    madugula

    @madugula-HLBmrN • Feb 17, 2010

    yes. planting trees is the easiest and healthiest way of reducing the climatic effects. i, along with my friends have planted 20 plants in our college.. :smile:

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  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi

    @sahithi-oJZaYj • Feb 21, 2010

    yes cloth bags and greenery can make huge changes in our climate. I do follow mostly.
    I think our CE ans do participate in the Earth Hour.

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  • harsh15
    harsh15

    @harsh15-yyoK1h • Feb 21, 2010

    carbon credit concept should be implemented on large scale.

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  • Ashraf HZ
    Ashraf HZ

    @Ash • Mar 25, 2010

    How time flies.. tomorrow is Earth Hour guys! Don't forget, lights off at 8:30pm (unless you are still driving 😉 )

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  • Vega
    Vega

    @vega-Ic42ds • Mar 26, 2010

    unless you are still driving

    or performing a surgery on a patient. 😀

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  • lal
    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Mar 27, 2010

    Dont forget to spare one hour for earth from 8.30 PM today.

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  • durga ch
    durga ch

    @durga-TpX3gO • Mar 27, 2010

    was on way back from UNI, so nopes I did not observe it, but SYD did observe ,I came to know the harbor bridge lighting was switched off and restaurants organised candle light dinners 😁 and my house-mate too observed it- so virtually I did! 😁

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  • CIVILPRINCESS
    CIVILPRINCESS

    @civilprincess-308hDv • Mar 27, 2010

    just switched off the lights 😁

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Mar 27, 2010

    Celebrating the Earth hour 😁

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  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi

    @sahithi-oJZaYj • Mar 27, 2010

    Celebrated Earth Hour 😀. Switched off all the lights.

    But, Very bad to say that I am only the person offed the power in my colony. I said to everyone but they neglected. I cant let them to do that.

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  • lal
    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Mar 27, 2010

    But atleast you did it, me did it, our good admin did it and many more CEans too...
    May be many more will join us next year...😉

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  • CIVILPRINCESS
    CIVILPRINCESS

    @civilprincess-308hDv • Mar 27, 2010

    yes even in my neighborhood not many switched off the lights. in fact, out of ordinary, my neighbors had put on more lights in their garden. 😔

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  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi

    @sahithi-oJZaYj • Mar 27, 2010

    Yes, Why they neglected this? I said the reason also that why we are doing all this. But, they didn't take it. I felt very bad on their part. :-(

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  • Gurjeet Singh
    Gurjeet Singh

    @gurjeet-LUX7B1 • Mar 29, 2010

    you have done it.thats good...make the diffrence 😀

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  • gohm
    gohm

    @gohm-F3UUpP • Mar 29, 2010

    Here in Washington DC they have initiated a $.05 fee to customers who purchase groceries and use plastic bags. Thus helping to incourage people to bring their own bags or simply carry the items.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare

    @thebigk • Mar 29, 2010

    gohmHere in Washington DC they have initiated a $.05 fee to customers who purchase groceries and use plastic bags. Thus helping to incourage people to bring their own bags or simply carry the items.

    That's a good move. I've stopped using plastic bags already. I've been using paper bags, but now they say we must save trees. 😔

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  • gohm
    gohm

    @gohm-F3UUpP • Mar 29, 2010

    True, plant fiber bags are better if they are from a sustainable product: hemp, bamboo, etc. and are unprocessed. Although tree paper bags are still better than plastic if the content is either 100% recycled or from sustainable harvest and the bag is used multiple times and then recycled again or composted.

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  • lal
    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Mar 29, 2010

    Haha... Thats true! We are locked!
    May be, we can use cloth bags or a baskets...

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  • CIVILPRINCESS
    CIVILPRINCESS

    @civilprincess-308hDv • Mar 29, 2010

    yeah cloth bags or hand woven baskets can be used 😁

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  • Ashraf HZ
    Ashraf HZ

    @Ash • Mar 29, 2010

    Argh, only managed to half-celebrate Earth Hour. Still had some errands to do at home, so switched off all lights except one. There were some fireworks at 8:30pm and 9:30pm, though its probably just kids trying to use Earth Hour as a pretense to play with them 😛 Unfortunately only a few Malaysians were actually aware of this event.

    gohmTrue, plant fiber bags are better if they are from a sustainable product: hemp, bamboo, etc. and are unprocessed. Although tree paper bags are still better than plastic if the content is either 100% recycled or from sustainable harvest and the bag is used multiple times and then recycled again or composted.

    Some countries like China have a net tree growth for now. That country seems to be intent on pursuing with being "green", probably to offset the huge energy demand.

    Ok folks, lets start discussing about our own CE Hour thing, which I think should be weekly (on top of the usual energy saving things we should be doing daily). Perhaps it can be an activity to carry out some recycling of stuff at home/work, etc. Any ideas?

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  • lal
    lal

    @lal-R60Xjx • Mar 30, 2010

    Ok folks, lets start discussing about our own CE Hour thing, which I think should be weekly (on top of the usual energy saving things we should be doing daily). Perhaps it can be an activity to carry out some recycling of stuff at home/work, etc. Any ideas?

    Oh, that could bring some great results. CEans are going to be Really 'eco-friendly'! 😀

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