earth hour: sydney ketuai kempen

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Sydney ketuai Earth Hour

SUASANA gelap berlaku berikutan kempen Earth Hour semalam.

SYDNEY - Bandar raya terbesar di Australia, Sydney diselubungi kegelapan pada malam semalam berikutan kempen meningkatkan kesedaran dunia mengenai pemanasan global.

Sydney merupakan bandar raya pertama di dunia meraikan Earth Hour dengan bergelap selama 60 minit di mana lampu di beberapa bangunan pencakar langit dan rumah ditutup bermula pada pukul 8 malam (5 petang waktu Malaysia).
Selepas Sydney, bandar raya utama lain Asia seperti Bangkok dan Manila turut berbuat demikian sebelum diikuti Eropah manakala Tel Aviv menangguhkannya pada 27 Mac atas alasan agama.

Pengasas Earth Hour, Andy Ridley berkata, beliau kagum dengan inisiatif yang dilakukan oleh penduduk dunia sejak ia dilancarkan oleh kumpulan alam sekitar WWF di Sydney, setahun lalu.

"Ketika kami mula bercakap mengenainya, impian kami adalah untuk melakukan sesuatu yang melibatkan penyertaan ramai orang," kata beliau.

Dalam kempen Earth Hour itu, kerajaan, syarikat dan pemilik kediaman digalakkan menutup lampu secara sukarela selama sejam untuk menunjukkan bahawa menerusi kerjasama, penduduk boleh melakukan perubahan bagi mengurangkan pengunaan tenaga.

Ketua Eksekutif Earth Hour Australia, Greg Bourne berkata, beliau menjangkakan puluhan juta orang menyertai kempen itu pada tahun ini dengan melibatkan 370 bandar raya, bandar dan kerajaan tempatan di seluruh dunia. - AFP


aku bayangkan kalu byk negara yg ikut mcm aussie ni.. pilih satu bandar dan bergelap 1 jam.. mungkin bagus kalu dibuat.. kl nak buat ker.. aku rasa satu initiatip yg bagus kalu KL buat mcm sydney ni..  so pak lah... bila lagi??   kalu pemerintah syorkan benda yg baguih cam ni.. rakyat akan akur.. lagi pun ni satu benda yg baik aper!!

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Earth Hour 2008 is a global movement. Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of Turning off the lights for ONE HOUR to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

In 2008, 24 global cities will participate in Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions on an ongoing basis. It is about simple changes that will collectively make a difference - from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty, to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.

AlienGurlz

kalu KL wat, buletin utama xde sapa nak tgk..
kan dorang wat kol 8pm..

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aku bajet musti derang kata   wokey  buletin utama kita adakan 9 malam..  musti kena ada gak..  

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Sunday March 30, 2008
Switch off, save planet message goes global
By Jeremy Lovell and Eric Auchard
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - People switched off lights around the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern with global warming.

Diners eat by candlelight outdoors at a restaurant participating in the Earth Hour event in Manila March 29, 2008. People switched off lights across the world on Saturday, dimming buildings, hotels, restaurants and bars to show concern at global warming. (REUTERS/John Javellana)

Up to 30 million people were expected to have switched off their lights for 60 minutes by the time "Earth Hour" -- which started in Suva in Fiji and Christchurch in New Zealand -- has completed its cycle westward.

More than 380 towns and cities and 3,500 businesses in 35 countries signed up for the campaign that is in its second year after it began in 2007 in Sydney alone.

"Earth Hour shows that everyday people are prepared to pull together to find a solution to climate change. It can be done," said James Leape of WWF International which was running the campaign.

Lights at Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge were switched off and Australians held candle-lit beach parties, played poker by candlelight and floated candles down rivers.

In Bangkok some of the city's business districts, shopping malls and billboards went dark, although street lights stayed on. One major hotel invited guests to dine by candle light and reported brisk business.

In Copenhagen, the Tivoli and the Royal Palace and the opera darkened for an hour, along with many street lights.

"In the central square a lot of people were standing looking at the stars," said Ida Thuesen, spokeswoman for WWF Denmark. "It's not often you can see the stars in a city."

GOOGLE GOES DARK

In a tip of its virtual hat to the event, the background of Google's home page turned to black from white on more than a dozen country sites including Google.com. A message on the site read: "We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn."

Floodlights went out at landmarks in Budapest, including its castle, cathedral and parliament.

In Britain, 26 town and city councils signed up to switch off nonessential lights as did several historic buildings including Prince Charles' private residence Highgrove House, London City Hall, Winchester Cathedral and the Government Communication Headquarters radio monitoring station. The south coast town of Brighton turned off the lights on its pier.

The movement crossed the Atlantic to the United States and Canada, where the 553-metre CN Tower in Toronto and the surrounding skyline were plunged into temporary darkness.

In Toronto's trendy Queen West neighborhood, many restaurants offered candlelight dining. The golden arches at a corner McDonalds were dark, though the fast-food restaurant itself was brightly lit.

Closer to downtown, news helicopters swooped low over city streets, where banks had switched off the neon signs atop their skyscrapers. "I would have expected fewer helicopters during earth hour," said one disgruntled spectator.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and Chicago's Sears Tower and Soldier Field football stadium were slated to take part in the closing hours of Saturday's global event.

Buildings account for about one-third of the carbon emissions that scientists say will boost global average temperatures by between 1.4 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century bringing floods and famines and putting millions of lives at risk.

Organizers of Earth Hour said that while switching off a light for one hour would have little impact on carbon emissions, the fact that so many people were taking part showed how much interest and concern at the climate crisis had taken hold.

(Additional reporting by James Thornhill in Sydney, Chisa Fujioka in Tokyo, Ploy Chitsomboon in Bangkok and Alister Doyle in Oslo, and Janet Guttsman and Renato Andrade in Toronto)


bandar2 besar camtu dah buat kempen earth hour.. KL bila lagi weiiiiiiiii

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3 years later, Sydney switched off some lights.  See the Sydney harbour before 830pm and during the Earth Hour.

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The bridge before the Earth Hour finished.

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Candles were lit up during the Earth Hour.

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The Opera House during the Earth Hour.  Not every single lights in Sydney were off between 830 to 930pm, that was I thought!