Marg's Man
Member
"I'm only one person, what difference can I make?"
So goes an advertisement running here at the moment. The short answer is - a lot.
Between 8pm and 9pm, Saturday 29 March local time, the City of Sydney will be switching off its lights in support of Earth Hour.
This symbolic act began in 2007 as a local initiative to raise awareness in a then recalcitrant Federal Government about the need for action on climate change. Since then it has been embraced by communities around the world making Earth Hour 2008 a global event. According to Sydney's local news services, the initiative is gaining huge momentum as an idea whose time has come. In just one hour we saved a huge amount of greenhouse gases that were NOT pumped into the atmosphere.
Remember as they say at the Earth Hour website
"Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney event. Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement.
Go to this website for more information:
http://www.earthhour.org/
and, PLEASE, join in, whether or not your local community is participating. It's not for us but for our children who will have to live in a world we will have left behind.
Marg's Man
So goes an advertisement running here at the moment. The short answer is - a lot.
Between 8pm and 9pm, Saturday 29 March local time, the City of Sydney will be switching off its lights in support of Earth Hour.
This symbolic act began in 2007 as a local initiative to raise awareness in a then recalcitrant Federal Government about the need for action on climate change. Since then it has been embraced by communities around the world making Earth Hour 2008 a global event. According to Sydney's local news services, the initiative is gaining huge momentum as an idea whose time has come. In just one hour we saved a huge amount of greenhouse gases that were NOT pumped into the atmosphere.
Remember as they say at the Earth Hour website
"Earth Hour 2007 was a Sydney event. Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement.
Go to this website for more information:
http://www.earthhour.org/
and, PLEASE, join in, whether or not your local community is participating. It's not for us but for our children who will have to live in a world we will have left behind.
Marg's Man