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  • Capture the moment - Earth Hour has arrived!

    Current mood:excited

    It's now a week away from Earth Hour and we want to help you prepare for the big day with a quick how-to guide to sharing your photos, videos, blog posts and tweets with us and the rest of the globe on the night.
     
    At 8.30pm on 27 March, lights will go out for one hour all over the world and we’d love you to help capture the moment in your area. We’re going to be adding your photos and videos to the homepage of earthhour.org on the night as it happens around the world, so upload your images and videos as soon as you can.
     
     
     
    Tweets and blog posts: use the tag '#earthhour' to help us find your post
     
    How?
     
    Photos
     
    1. Upload your photos to your own Flickr account2. Join our group: http://flickr.com/groups/eh20103. Add your photos to the group4. To help us identify where they come from, please name and tag the photos with:
     
     'Earth Hour, Earth Hour 2010, your city, your country'
     
    Videos
     
    1. Upload your videos to your own YouTube account2. Add your videos to http://www.youtube.com/group/earthhourglobal3. To help us identify where they come from, please name and tag the videos with:
     
     'Earth Hour, Earth Hour 2010, your city, your country'
     
    Tweets and Blog Posts
     
    Let us know what is happening in your area and what you are doing on the night on Twitter and, if you have one, on your own blog.  Use #earthhour for your tweets and tag your blog posts ‘earth hour’ so that we can easily find your posts. Follow @earthhour on Twitter to receive updates from around the globe across the duration of Earth Hour.
     
    By following these steps, you can easily share your Earth Hour experience with the rest of the world and truly be a part of the greatest mass participation event in history.
    4:45 AM

  • The start of a beautiful friendship...

    Current mood:happy

    Welcome to today’s Earth Hour Online Supporter of the Day post. Today we’d like the highlight not just one person but a group of people who have not only spread the Earth Hour message – they’ve brought a whole country on board to participate!

    We were first contacted by Lamia Ben a few weeks ago via our Twittter account - she wanted to know what she could do to help Casablanca celebrate Earth Hour. Apparently her friends and her had been participating for years but finally thought to make it official.

    Since thing Lamia and her friends have created a Facebook Group, a web page, Facebook event and Twitter accounts to support Earth Hour in Casablanca and Morocco as a whole, while also making connections with companies in Morocco who will support Earth Hour and ensuring that icons in the county turn out their lights on the night!

    It's an amazing effort, but also indicative of how the Earth Hour campaign is run - Earth Hour is an open source project, one in which we are completely reliant on all of you to make it as amazing as possible. We posted a list of countries awhile back that were yet to sign on officially for Earth Hour, just like Morocco was before the Lamia and her friends stepped in. Please check the list and if you can help make Earth Hour officially happen in any of those countries, please contact us on Contact@EarthHour.org. It's actually relatively easy to fufill the criteria, and every little bit helps.

    You can follow the links in the post above to see all the work first hand. Want to be our next Online Supporter of the Day? Send your name, details and why you deserve it to supporter@EarthHour.org and feel free to comment below - what have you done to spread the Earth Hour message?
    4:43 AM

  • Antorchas para el planeta Tierra

    Current mood:excited

    Some stunning images have made their way to us of the recent Earth Hour lantern launching ceremony held in Lima, part of Peru's Earth Hour 2010 celebrations. Peru participated in Earth Hour for the first time in 2009 as dozens of cities turned out their lights and major landmarks like the world heritage listed Lima Cathedral and 500 year old government palace were dimmed. You can see the video from Peru's lantern launch below, as well as WWF Peru's official video for Earth Hour 2010. 

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    [image credit: aquistbe]
    4:30 AM

  • Which is worse? The global financial crisis or climate change? Why?

    We have a new Talking Point question on our Earth Connect network, on the Earth Hour site.
    Which is worse? The global financial crisis or climate change, and why? What are your thoughts, we'd love to know your opionion on this.
    http://www.earthhour.org
    6:45 AM
    • Post a comment...
      • Esparadol El ninos Ger

        climate change because when it distroy where we went to live

        2 years ago
      • jasmine

        financial crisis.


        they've been around before & are "fixable" in one way or another.


        question is: is climate change fixable? and if so, to what degree?

        2 years ago
      • Marta Da Costa

        I think it's climate change. Our planet should be our first priority!
        But this is a controversial topic and It's so difficult to choose an option. =S


        We have to agree that it's easier to find a solution to financial crisis than to climate change...


        2 years ago
      • Rosa T. Colon

        Money comes and goes... but our Mother Earth will stay (or at least she is trying...)

        2 years ago
      • Akshan Barla

        This is a really good topic but so controversial when debated upon. We've had financial crunches in the past too & the world recovered just fine. Same is the case with Earth. She goes under a natural phase of global warming & cooling but it's never been so extreme as of now. Now we got to prioritize on whether to save our pockets or our planet. All the money in the world won't be able to save Earth once it's too late! Even if a handful of people start setting good examples on saving the planet, others will soon join the cue. Besides, people are just losing the jobs or a promotion or maybe a couple months of salary 'cause of the financial crisis. It sure isn't making species go extinct is it! Neither is our home being destroyed in such a way that our children may have no habitable environment to live in. The climate change is definitely the graver situation here.
        - Akshan

        2 years ago

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