Thread: Earth Hour 2009 - YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE

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VOTE EARTH
YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE


8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009

Earth Hour's aim to reach more than one billion
people in 1000 cities around the world in 2009. Earth Hour is inviting
communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at
8:30pm on Saturday March 28, sending a powerful global message that we care
enough about climate change to take action.

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I was about to start this thread.. Nice initiative...I'm in..

same here, even i am in and my org is also taking part in this

Really we need some awareness
Still we are not much giving much importance to the climate

Please reply on
World Meteorological Day

Although Very few people know about that day.

The Main Polluters

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Dear Colleague,

Two years back, Sydney was blacked out for an hour.

Last year, 400 cities across the world went dark.

These were not power cuts. But a fight. Fight against climate change. A fight to save our only planet.

It was Earth Hour.

This year, one billion people from 2000 cities across the world will turn out the lights of their homes and offices to tell the world leaders that climate change is real. That it is happening in their cities and it is happening now. And they want something done!

In India, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and many more cities like Cochin, Thiruvanathapuram, Hyderabad, Pune, Dehradun, Shimla, Guwahati and Allahabad will observe Earth Hour. So will many corporates like- Wipro, Infosys, NDPL, Birlasoft, TCS, CB Richard Ellis, PVR Cinemas, Waves Cinemas, The Taj Group, ITC Welcom Group, Welcom Heritage, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Yes Bank, Canara HSBC Life, ING Vyasa Bank, Nokia, Tata Indicom, HP, Intel, Google, DLF Luxury Homes and Tetrapak. Giants like Air India and RBI in Mumbai will shut down lights for an hour. Governments of Delhi and Mumbai are supporting this initiative. The list is long and still growing.

So far, 200,000 students have joined Earth Hour. IIT Delhi, Mumbai, Roorkee and IIM- Ahemdabad will participate too.

Join Earth Hour on Saturday, 28th March. Turn off the lights from 8.30 to 9.30 pm. Come out and march with hundreds of others in Dilli Haat in Delhi and BPT park, Colaba in Mumbai.

It will be an hour to stand up and stand together. Only for our planet.
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will try my level best....

if not possible for you then call your parents at home and tell them to switch off all the lights
Its a great step, everyone should participate and contribute.

I don't need to worry about this, my electricity provider (mseb) takes care of this every damn single day!! Load-shedding for 4 bloody hours every single day!

i don't think we are talking about any power supply deppt. here were are talking about Earh Hour please stick to topic and don't crib about other govt/non govt. organisation
mate if you want then you are more than welcome to start a new thread.

I think he has a point. How can he turn off the lights when
there is no power in the first place.

-F

p.s I agree we need to reduce our power consumption. Power down
personal computers too.

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

if not possible for you then call your parents at home and tell them to switch off all the lights
Its a great step, everyone should participate and contribute.

Yes we only can do that.Because most of the developed country are emitting green house gas in high rate(1st & 2nd, China & US).Also they never want to agree to take major step about that matter.

I'm in too.


But what I feel sad about is that those bloody americans don't want to acknowledge that the green house effect does exist.

And if I'm right, they alone use about 50% of all the power generated in the world.

So it does not make much of a difference unless they don't follow in the steps of other countries to reduce GHE.

For them its not a question of awareness but a question of weaning themselves of their comforts and whims.


OFF-TOPIC :

Originally Posted by farce

I think he has a point. How can he turn off the lights when
there is no power in the first place.

-F

p.s I agree we need to reduce our power consumption. Power down
personal computers too.

For me power used go off exactly at 6 am in morn when start NU d/l

This is very necessary for us to save the electricity. Save the electricity for future.

I am in too...

one thing everyone can do - take a print out / newspaper cutting can put it on the notice boards of your apartments

mail this to friends and family ...

Originally Posted by newprouser

And if I'm right, they alone use about 50% of all the power generated in the world.

mate americans make about 5% of world population and consume about 26% of the worlds energy, US & Canada together consume 50% of total energy.

Gr8 initiative...will switch off lights....:surrender:

Originally Posted by Rameshjeee

Gr8 initiative...will switch off lights....:surrender:

as if you will be at home to switch off the lights
say that you will callback home to remind them about switching off lights

i m definately in......

I NEVER KNEW INDIA WAS DAMN SERIOUS ABOUT THIS....

For me earth hour started at 4 am today when power was cut off

Came at 5 and till 9 am it was there. Then again till 1 no power.

Then 2 more have followed....

Now do i need to save more power :48::48:

Originally Posted by newprouser

I NEVER KNEW INDIA WAS DAMN SERIOUS ABOUT THIS....

In WB, CESC maintaining such seriousness from last couple of month.

Originally Posted by rupu1983

In WB, CESC maintaining such seriousness from last couple of month.

:lol: too bad

we faced similar problems from november last yr, then after heavy rains, load shedding was stopped.

lights off here

what about lights at your place

Nah, I didn't ... I gave more than my share today, tho unwillingly

oops i forgot about this!!!!!!!!!!

But there were only a few lights on in my home anyway!

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

oops i forgot about this!!!!!!!!!!

But there were only a few lights on in my home anyway!

That sounds good, apart from that you can still save light at home. Keep lights off when not required and if required at night then you can use USB lamp which runs from system only

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