Earth Hour 2010! [27/3/2010]

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  durga ch

  * 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

  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

  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

  carbon credit concept should be implemented on large scale.
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  Ashraf HZ

  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

  unless you are still driving

  or performing a surgery on a patient. 😀
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  lal

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

  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

  just switched off the lights 😁
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Celebrating the Earth hour 😁
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  Sahithi Pallavi

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

  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

  gohm

  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.

  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

  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

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

  yeah cloth bags or hand woven baskets can be used 😁
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  Ashraf HZ

  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.
  
  

  gohm

  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.

  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

  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'! 😀