By Nicole Walters, GreenIsUniversal.com
On March 31 2007, the worlds first Earth Hour took place in the city of Sydney, Australia. Over 2.2 million residents and over 2,100 businesses turned off their lights for one hour in an effort to generate awareness about the greatest contributor to global warming - coal-fired electricity. This resulted in reduced energy consumption by 10.2% that day. The equivalent to taking 48,000 cars off the road.
Here at Green Is Universal, we believe that little things add up to make big change. And last year's Earth Hour is just the proof we like to see. What began as one city's symbolic event started a movement and this year, Earth Hour is going global! 24 cities around the world will "turn off" at 8pm on March 29.
Chicago will be the U.S. flagship city, with Atlanta, Phoenix and San Francisco acting as leading partner cities. Everyone throughout the U.S. and around the world is invited and encouraged to participate - whether at home or at work, with friends or family, in a big city or a small town. Find out how your city is participating at EarthHourUS.org.
What you do when the lights are off is your own business, but Earth Hour US has got lots of suggestions for you, including changing out your old energy-wasting light bulbs to new, inexpensive and efficient compact fluorescents. Let us know what you are planning to do for Earth Hour.
Nicole Walters
GreenIsUniversal.com
i had an issue concerning the dump, and how people were going about dumping trash. Me and a few friends had went to the dump to dispose of some trash that accumulated over time. Upon arrival we seen the recycle area, which was not mandatory, but optional. So like the ina lovers we are, we went through all our trash and recycled everything possible. When finished we went to the dump site which was full of people who were dumping everything from wood to plastics to metal, with no care about recycleing. just about every person dumping had passed the recycle center and never took a second glance. This angers and amazes me, that people dont care about the invironment. ill stop before i rant too much.But i would like someone in the Gov. to talk to me so we can create a better more eco. friendly place to live, by adding a few programs which in time will make the gov. money. I dont see why not, they love money.