Participate in Earth Hour or Earth Day!

Earth Day

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans performed a demonstration in the streets, parks, and auditoriums to protest for a healthy, sustainable environment. In 1990 Earth Day went global, 200 million people in 141 countries participated in the event. Earth Day raises awareness to the world about environmental issues, by educating people worldwide about different ways we can all help save the environment. Share ideas with friends on how to reduce, reuse and recycle and how to stay green, let’s do what we can to reduce climate change.

If you want to take part:
Earth Day is held every year on April 22.

For More Information Visit: http://www.earthday.net/node/77


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Earth Hour

Earth hour will not fix climate change, but it is a good way to raise awareness around the world. Earth hour was originally started by the World Wildlife Fund of Australia. It was first held on the last Saturday of March in 2007, and more than two million people and businesses took part in this event. They shut off their lights for an hour, resulting in a 10% reduction in consumption on the city electrical grid. In the next year the event went global. Earth Hour 2009 included: 83 countries; which had 2 400 cities, towns and municipalities, just under 19 000 business and 5 500 organizations.

Earth hour is encouraging the world to conserve energy, and has been effective with the increasing number of countries each year it is celebrated. Next time think twice about conserving energy, turn off a light when you leave the room or even change some or all of your light bulbs in your house to energy saving bulbs. These are just two ways you can reduce energy consumption on a daily basis.

If you want to take part:
Earth Hour is held on the last Saturday of March at 8:00pm.

For More Information Visit: http://wwf.ca/earthhour/


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