Earth Hour 2009

Hi all! This past Saturday, March 28th, something called Earth Hour occurred. Here’s some information about Earth Hour.

2.2 million homes and businesses turned off their lights for one hour in Sydney in 2007, creating Earth Hour. The following year 50 million people and landmarks such as; the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Colosseum in Rome, the Sydney Opera House, the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, turned off their lights. This past Saturay, Earth Hour was taken to another level, with a hopeful goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of the global vote. The difference in this election is that its not about the country that you live in, but to save the planet you live on. For the 2009 VOTE EARTH over 74 countries and territories had pledge their support, and numbers grow every day. Their goal… to have the Earth precious for future generations to live on.

Hey, so instead of having Earth Hour just once a year, how about trying it about once a month? When you go to the store during the day, instead of; leaving the lights on here and there, the radio on, etc. try opening the blinds to let the sunlight in. Its not bad for the Earth, sunlight is something natural and most likely won’t hurt anything inside your home. J Below are some pictures of Earth Hour 2009! Thanks for everyone who participated.

Earth Hour 2009: On The Night
Earth Hour 2009
US cities that participated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CRs-7lRlPo
FAMILIAR SIGHT?

World Water Day

Hey this is just a quick post. I was on youtube getting ready to listen to some chillaxing music while I do some homework- gasp gasp quarter ends FRIDAY don't panic- haha so yeah. Anyways I was recommended this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEnlrE4iMBU
Watch it.. its about World Water Day... aka March 22nd or in other words TODAY

Recycling Bins

For one of my classes we get a LOT of papers. Vocab lists, worksheets, homework, conjunctions, other sheets to help us out with Spanish. The thing is there isn't a recycling bin in her class! If there isn't a recycling bin in any one of your classes definitely try to get one.

• approximately 324 L. of water is used to produce 1 KG of paper
• the average worldwide annual paper consumption is 48 KG per person
• North America accounting over 1/3 of the 48 KG
• an estimated 95% of business information is still stored on paper

To find out more about these facts on paper waste go to:

http://www.id2.ca/downloads/eco-design-paper-facts.pdf

http://www.articlesbase.com/environment-articles/top-15-shocking-facts-you-didnt-know-about-office-paper-waste-461807.html

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Paper/Prevention/

http://www.tappi.org/paperu/all_about_paper/earth_answers/Recycle1.htm