Philippines topped Earth Hour 2009

(CNN) The Philippines topped this year's participation for Asia, with more than 650 communities taking part in the event, according to Earth Hour's Web site.

Congratulation to all participants as this is a successful event!

Earth Hour 2009

We have just joined the Earth Hour 2009 (8:30pm - 9:30 pm) :D

This is turning your lights out for just one hour.

Earth Hour is an international event organised by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), and held on the last Saturday of March each year, which asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.(source)

This event is a global warming awareness initiative. By turning our lights out for just one hour we can help in the reduction of carbon emissions which reduces the effects of global warming.


And I'm proud to say we've been joining the Earth hour since 2008.

This is for the next generations. Let's VOTE EARTH!!!

Want to do something to help stop global warming?

Here are 10 simple things you can do and how much carbon dioxide you'll save doing them. (from An Inconvenient Truth)


Change a light
Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb will save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

Drive less
Walk, bike, carpool or take mass transit more often. You'll save one pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don't drive!

Recycle more
You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.

Check your tires
Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%.Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!

Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead(350 pounds of C02 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year).

Avoid products with a lot of packaging
You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.

Adjust your thermostat
Moving your thermostat just 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees in summerYou could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.

Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

Turn off electronic devices
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you're not using them will save you thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.


Spread the word!
www.climatecrisis.net


(I've seen this movie on HBO and it's really very alarming!)

We Can Make A Difference

Don't spend your precious time asking
'Why isn't the world a better place?'
It will only be time waster.

The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?'
To that there is an answer.

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I always hear people complain about the world today... the politics, the economics, crimes, poverty, their job, their families. I cannot blame them if they feel that way. As we all know, we are in the midst of global crisis and global warming. There is no "better" place nowadays.

Where else can we go if not on Earth? This is our home. We must do something.

Yes! We cannot change the world but we can make a difference.

We can start with simple things. Like following traffic rules. Throwing candy wrappers into a trash bin. Turning off the lights when not in use. Saving water.

...by following traffic rules, accidents can be avoided.

...by throwing candy wrappers into a trash bin, we can keep floods from happening.

...by turning off the lights, we can reduce the emission of energy that affects our ozone layer.

...by saving water, we can keep ourselves from not taking a bath or not brushing our teeth and a lot more things. hehehe.

   According to savewater!® Alliance "Of all the water in the world, only 3% is fresh. Less than one third of 1% of this fresh water is available for human use. The rest is frozen in glaciers or polar ice caps, or is deep within the earth, beyond our reach." So why waste it?


Let's start with these or other simple things and we can make a difference!

YES WE CAN! (hehehe... sounds familiar ba?!?)

ciao!