Tag: earth hour

Turn OFF your lights — 8–9pm tomorrow (Saturday)

Sup­port the Earth Hour ini­tia­tive tomor­row (Sat 28th) and turn off your lights between 8pm-9pm.

But it will be dark!
I know … fun eh!? Light can­dles, play spooky games (I rec­om­mend Were­wolf) or tell ghost sto­ries — in essence HAVE FUN!

And it’s not just about the lights, that’s the min­i­mum. If you can turn off any­thing else then do so — how about turn­ing off the com­put­er!!!

More info:

• Welling­ton City Coun­cil press release
• New Zealand ‘Earth Hour’ Google news search …
• Offi­cial Earth Hour site

And final­ly — how do we feel about Christchurch being the offi­cial New Zealand Earth Hour rep … crap eh, it should be Welling­ton!!

Write to both Ker­ry Pren­der­gast (May­or — kerry.prendergast@wcc.govt.nz) and Ray Ahipene-Mer­cer (Port­fo­lio Leader: Cli­mate Change — ray.ahipene-mercer@wcc.govt.nz) ask­ing for a big push for 2009 — think of the cov­er­age we’ll get inter­na­tion­al­ly, all because you all got behind it and asked!

Earth Hour (8pm , 29th March) — Wellington City Council press release

As promised:

NEWS RELEASE
26 Feb­ru­ary 2008

Welling­to­ni­ans encour­aged to turn off the lights for Earth Hour

Welling­ton May­or Ker­ry Pren­der­gast is encour­ag­ing Welling­to­ni­ans to turn off their lights in sup­port of Earth Hour on Sat­ur­day 29 March.

Earth Hour, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ini­tia­tive aimed at fight­ing cli­mate change, was launched last week in Christchurch. While Christchurch is this year’s offi­cial host city for New Zealand, Welling­ton is eager to par­tic­i­pate.

“Earth Hour is a fan­tas­tic way for Welling­to­ni­ans to show their com­mit­ment to fight­ing cli­mate change. Every lit­tle bit helps and if we all turn off the lights for just one hour we all can make a dif­fer­ence. Wellington’s vision is to become the first car­bon-neu­tral Cap­i­tal in the world, we must do every­thing we can to make that vision a reality,” she says.

“We will be sign­ing up as an offi­cial part­ner of WWF in this ini­tia­tive next year and put some resource behind it. This year we will be lead­ing by exam­ple and turn­ing off our lights,” May­or Pren­der­gast says.

Earth Hour will begin at 8pm on Sat­ur­day, 29 March. It start­ed in Syd­ney last year and was a resound­ing suc­cess with the city’s ener­gy usage drop­ping by 10 per­cent. Lights on famous land­marks — the Syd­ney Opera House and Har­bour Bridge — were turned off for an hour and busi­ness­es and res­i­dents joined in. This year cities across Europe, North Amer­i­ca, Asia, Aus­tralia and New Zealand are join­ing in.

Welling­ton City Coun­cil will reg­is­ter as a par­tic­i­pant of Earth Hour and will look at what lights it can turn off. This could include the exter­nal light­ing at swim­ming pools, libraries, recre­ation cen­tres and oth­er Coun­cil-owned build­ings and the lights in the trees in Ori­en­tal Bay and Civic Square.

Cli­mate Change Port­fo­lio leader Cr Ray Ahipene-Mer­cer says Earth Hour is a great way of show­ing how much we care about the plan­et.