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Lima, 28 de marzo del 2009...Apagon en lima por la hora del planeta durante una hora desde las 8:30 pm. Hasta las 9:30 pm. Lima se quedo sin luz en una manera de hacer frente al calentamineto global. Organizado por la wwf..Fotos: Miguel bellido/El comercio peru.
Am 29. März 2014 war Earth Hour. Um 20:30 Uhr gingen überall auf der Welt die Lichter aus – von Samoa bis Tahiti, von den Pyramiden in Gizeh bis zum Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
Die Earth Hour ist eine global angelegte Gemeinschaftsaktion, bei der Millionen von Menschen und tausende Städte weltweit am gleichen Abend für eine Stunde ihre Lichter ausschalten, um so ein Zeichen für den Schutz unseres Planeten zu setzen.
Mehr Informationen: earthhour.wwf.de
Am 29. März 2014 war Earth Hour. Um 20:30 Uhr gingen überall auf der Welt die Lichter aus – von Samoa bis Tahiti, von den Pyramiden in Gizeh bis zum Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
Die Earth Hour ist eine global angelegte Gemeinschaftsaktion, bei der Millionen von Menschen und tausende Städte weltweit am gleichen Abend für eine Stunde ihre Lichter ausschalten, um so ein Zeichen für den Schutz unseres Planeten zu setzen.
Mehr Informationen: earthhour.wwf.de
Lights go out at Piccadilly's Coca-Cola sign during Earth Hour 2012, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK. 31/03/12
Don't forget it is the Earth Hour today (20:30 to 21:30 local - 8:30 to 9:30 PM)
Save power and light a candle instead - shut off the TV and be with your loved ones.
© Margot L'hermite / WWF - Pascal Canfin, Directeur général du WWF France, Anne Hidalgo, Maire de Paris accompagnée de son adjointe Célia Blauel et Ségolène Royal, Ministre de l'Environnement, de l'Énergie et de la Mer, chargée des Relations internationales sur le climat.
Raja, a group of young, highly skilled fire jugglers performed at the WWF Earth Hour event in Izvor Park, Bucharest, Romania.
Earth Hour 2010. Two volunteers holding a candle amongst the 1600 candles, symbols of the 1600 pandas and forming the shape of a 60 to celebrate Earth Hour, place Jacques Rueff, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France.
Earth Hour is really just an excuse to get together by candle light with friends - something that should definitely be done more often.
Shown in the picture: candles (on circuit boards of course!), wine, cheese, bread, and chocolate.
The ingredient not shown in the picture: great company!
Please visit the ulterior epicure to join and learn more about this one hour celebration and exercise in conservation.
As the first half of Earth Hour ticked on, my son shared many thoughts with me. He told me about Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, Genghis Kahn, Henry the VIII, Montezuma, Atahualpa… My own reading gave me a refresher in greenhouse gases and energy use, facts I shared with him. Periodically we checked the houses and mostly we saw streetlights and the occasional car headlights, but for the most part, the houses remained dark, with the odd non-participating house contrasting starkly with its many lights.
By the second part of the hour, it was clear that we were enjoying our activities by candlelight without the hubbub of computers, TV, phones, and the inevitable relocation of family that instant lighting enables without a second thought. Obliged to remain huddled around our little grouping of candles for the only source of light, Earth Hour gave me a second gift in reminding me how important it is to recreate this closeness, tranquility, and sharing of interests on a regular basis at home, by “switching off” the distractions.
Creativity sparked in this quiet hour. In between my son’s reading about the Dark Ages of Europe and my crash course in how turbines work, a thought evolved between us that it’d be a good idea to make a climate change boardgame together, one that could help families understand the challenges and solutions through standing in other people’s shoes. We drew diagrams and created characters, all by the light of the candle. A third gift of Earth Hour: The two of us now have an ongoing passion to share for many months ahead.
Mindful and Meaningful
Seated together, telling one another things, sharing ideas, and just being close without the concern that sudden technological interruptions would burst the creativity bubble, is an incredible experience that I want our family to engage in more often. It isn’t just about making space for “quality time” with our children, something which many of us already do; it’s also about knowingly turning off the distractions that unconsciously lead our concentration astray. By disconnecting from technology now and then, I believe that we can show our children that this downtime is as much a means to connecting as being "switched on". While humans are clever enough to leave the light on way past sundown, we’re not always so alert to the downside of our brilliant inventions, our tendency occasionally to allow our inventions run us and determine our routines. For me, Earth Hour was an excellent opportunity to practice mindfulness toward the manner in which my energy usage plays out within my family life.
Framing the event as meaningful matters because Earth Hour is not about measurable mass power reduction once a year (even though it's cool to see that happen); rather, it is an important opportunity to reflect on our personal energy usage, a time to calculate the costs (financial, social, cultural, and environmental) of our energy-hungry lifestyles, and an hour during which we can ponder the ways in which each of us can make beneficial individual changes that contribute to the larger whole. The occasion was all the more meaningful to me when I saw that others also felt this way, including MiniMonos turning off its servers in acknowledgment too.
So, did I celebrate a meaningful Earth Hour? I’d say emphatically, yes, I did. I got to share it with my son–and even a handful of famous leaders! I was delighted by the spontaneous ideas that arose despite the lack of planning, and we created something together in a Eureka moment that will continue to spark our creative energy in times ahead. We’ve agreed on sharing regular “Earth Hours” as a family tradition, for family bonding, as much as for marking a concern for resource-saving. We ended Earth Hour (two hours after it began!) committed to sharing more non-distracted time together, looking for more ways to positive message about planetary and human health, and feeling positive that other people around us do “give a stuff”. For a child, symbolic occasions matter and that’s enough reason for me to say Earth Hour should matter to us adults too. Sometimes you just have to be in the dark to be enlightened.
Notes:
* The Comic Strip History of the World is a delightful way to introduce children ages 8–12 to a compact and very humorous take on major world history events and leaders. Recommended! ISBN 978-0-7475-9431-4
* Our Choice by Al Gore is recommended too, if you haven't already read it. It provides good clarifications of the technical concepts and it's a very good overview that can be easily shared with children around the kitchen table. ISBN 978-0-7475-9098-9
This year i went the extra mile and was switched off for 60+ hours(until morning..) in fact they are still off :P hehe taken with my hero :) some of the candels went out too fast as they ver not new ones.. well it still looks good ;) njoy!
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Am 29. März 2014 war Earth Hour. Um 20:30 Uhr gingen überall auf der Welt die Lichter aus – von Samoa bis Tahiti, von den Pyramiden in Gizeh bis zum Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
Die Earth Hour ist eine global angelegte Gemeinschaftsaktion, bei der Millionen von Menschen und tausende Städte weltweit am gleichen Abend für eine Stunde ihre Lichter ausschalten, um so ein Zeichen für den Schutz unseres Planeten zu setzen.
Mehr Informationen: earthhour.wwf.de
Hayley was the runner up of Australian Idol and she departed for trip to Antarctic in the lead up to Earth Hour to see for herself what is happening because of global warming
Shot during Earth hour 2009 - March 28th 8.30PM - 9.30 PM
Camera was kept on a table and the letters were written using torch. Also tried using candle,agarbattis(incense sticks).., but that didn't work
Lights go out at Piccadilly's Coca-Cola sign during Earth Hour 2012, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK. 31/03/12