World Earth Day

First, some facts about "World Earth Day"

What is Earth Hour?

• Earth Hour is World Wildlife Fund's global initiative where individuals, businesses and governments turn off their lights for one hour to show their support for action on climate change.
• Earth Hour is a symbolic event designed to engage people from all walks of life in the climate change discussion to send a strong message to our political leaders that we want them to take meaningful action on climate change.
• The largest climate event in history where millions of people around the world will unite by turning off their lights for one hour, Earth Hour, to demand action on the climate crisis.

What happened during Earth Hour in 2008?

• Earth Hour 2008 was an important step in the fight against climate change. Over 50 million people, representing over 400 cities on all seven continents, turned out their lights in the largest climate event of all time.
• The movement captured the public's imagination with lights going out at some of the world's most iconic landmarks, including the Sydney Opera House, Bangkok's Wat Arun Buddhist temple, the Coliseum in Rome, Stockholm's Royal Castle, London's City Hall, New York's Empire State Building, Sears Tower in Chicago and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Other symbols going dark included Cola-Cola's famous billboard in Times Square and the Google homepage

What are the next steps after turning out ones lights?

• Earth Hour is just the start. After the lights go out around the world, we hope that conversations will continue on climate change and that people will take the initiative to make small changes in their lives to be more carbon-efficient. We encourage simple but effective energy-saving measures such as installing compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), which are more efficient and last much longer than traditional incandescent bulbs, choosing energy-efficient appliances, making sure their car tyres are properly inflated and unplugging electronic devices when they are not in use. WWF will spend the rest of the year taking the voices of the people who participated in Earth Hour to our policy makers and work with them on finding ways to get us out of the climate crisis the world is facing.

Well, I don't have much to say in this, its self explanatory.
I'd like to tell a little about my experience on the World Earth Day (28th March 09). The day I came across this, I had planned on taking this small step towards making a better tomorrow for myself and my fellow people. I came to know about it from facebook, so I invited my friends to join the cause. Some of my friends did join the cause and took a small step to do their bit and some ignored it. Yesterday, from morning, I had been telling my parents I would like to switch off the lights at 8:30, they were also aware of the "World Earth Day" as the local newspapers had been giving information about the same. My parents encouraged me on it. They were also present along with my sister who didn't know much about it, but she also agreed as she came to know more of it from my mom. It also gave me a reason to celebrate my parents anniversary candle light dinner I had planned but because of some reason we could not go ahead with it. This gave me and my sister the oppourtunity of giving my parents the last gift in my possesion and celebrating the delayed candle dinner which instead of the two of them all the four celebrated. It was a very happy and fun time I had with my family. It was like the famous hindi dialoge from the movies "Ek teer, toh neshana", which means, using one move I had completed two objectives. All in all, it was a wonderfull time I spent with my family.







































































If you would like to know more about "World Earth Day", there are a couple of links below for you to check.

Information
http://www.earthhour.org/home
http://www.earthhour.in

World Earth Day Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CRs-7lRlPo