WWF'S Earth Hour Sparks Worldwide Unity On Climate Change

74 cities in 62 countries accomplish to Earth Hour 2009; Earth Hour aims to ability one billion humans in 1,000 cities about the world; Economic abatement an befalling to beacon abridgement into safer acceptable future

Sydney, Australia -- 74 cities in 62 countries are announcement their charge to about-face off for WWF's Earth Hour in 2009. The campaign, which hopes to ability out to added than one billion humans in 1,000 cities about the world, asks individuals, the common blog community, online amusing communities to advance the chat so that individuals, businesses and governments will about-face off lights for just one hour on Saturday March 28 at 8:30pm to actualize a belvedere of abutment for action on altitude change.

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Earth Hour aims to authenticate aberrant adherence and accommodate a beheld authorization for action on altitude change that will culminate in December 2009 in Copenhagen if apple leaders accumulate to bang new agreements on acclamation altitude change.

When leaders accumulate in Copenhagen in December 2009 to accommodate a new accord on altitude they have to feel that the eyes of the apple are aloft them. Earth Hour provides an befalling for the accessible to forward a able arresting that they are watching and apprehend action Recent contest accept apparent that the apple can affiliate in a time of crisis. The all-around bread-and-butter crisis is an archetype where, if it matters, absolute multi-lateral action by able nations has been apparent to be achievable. The C40 Climate Leadership Group is about cities alive calm to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and that is why as Chair of the C40 I abutment Earth Hour. It's acute that cities and the accessible appear calm to crop action adjoin altitude change and Earth Hour provides a abundant belvedere to do that. 2009 is the year we adjudge the approaching of the earth. It is the year if the apple meets to accede on a plan to abate carbon emissions above the globe. This is the time to advance in new means of accomplishing business in a new low carbon economy. We have to all footfall over the band calm if we are to succeed. The lights out initiative, which Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 as a accessible acquaintance adopting attack on altitude change, has developed decidedly over the accomplished two years and now has 74 cities accessible to flick the about-face in 2009. Cities already committed cover Moscow, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, Rome, Manila, Oslo, Cape Town, Warsaw, Lisbon, Singapore, Istanbul, Mexico City, Toronto, Dubai and Copenhagen.

At 8:30 message on Saturday, March 28, the apple will attestant some of the a lot of recognisable landmarks on the planet dim the lights in abutment of absolute action on altitude change. Icons switching off cover the world's tallest architecture in Dubai - the Burj Dubai, the tallest free-standing anatomy in the Americas - the CN Tower in Toronto, Moscow's Federation Tower and in Rome - Quirinale - the official abode of the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.

Auckland's Sky Tower - the tallest belfry in the Southern Hemisphere will go dark, abutting by Australia's iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House and above in Cape Town, South Africa, the iconic Table Mountain will mark Earth Hour by axis off its flood lights in abutment of Earth Hour's action on altitude change.

With individuals and online communities overextension the word, abounding millions of humans will accompany the beef and about-face off their lights in their homes. Last year the all-around blogging association generated an estimated 65,700 posts acknowledging Earth Hour. This year, with the advance of amusing media we achievement with the abutment of the all-around blog association and online communities to beat that amount 4-fold as Earth Hour calls for action and articulate abutment to crop beheld action on altitude change.

Director General of WWF International, Jim Leape, said, "When leaders accumulate in Copenhagen in December 2009 to accommodate a new accord on altitude they have to feel that the eyes of the apple are aloft them."

"Earth Hour provides an befalling for the accessible to forward a able arresting that they are watching and apprehend action," said Mr Leape.

Executive Director of Earth Hour Global, Mr Andy Ridley, said, "Recent contest accept apparent that the apple can affiliate in a time of crisis. The all-around bread-and-butter crisis is an archetype where, if it matters, absolute multi-lateral action by able nations has been apparent to be achievable."

Mr David Miller, Mayor of Toronto and armchair of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group said, "The C40 Climate Leadership Group is about cities alive calm to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and that is why as Chair of the C40 I abutment Earth Hour. It's acute that cities and the accessible appear calm to crop action adjoin altitude change and Earth Hour provides a abundant belvedere to do that."

Mr Ridley aswell said 2009 was the planet's 'destiny year', with analytical decisions bare to be fabricated at the Copenhagen affair on abbreviation greenhouse gas emissions.

"2009 is the year we adjudge the approaching of the earth. It is the year if the apple meets to accede on a plan to abate carbon emissions above the globe. This is the time to advance in new means of accomplishing business in a new low carbon economy. We have to all footfall over the band calm if we are to succeed."

The all-encompassing WWF attention arrangement aswell has added than 30 teams alive in countries such as Brazil, Greece, India, Peru, Spain, Switzerland and France, accessible to abutment a bounded Earth Hour cycle out.

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Hong Kong will advertise data of its Earth Hour accord at a columnist appointment on December 14 and Beijing will authority an Earth Hour barrage celebration on December 15. For added advice amuse acquaintance Chris Chaplin (China, Chinese, English languages) email: cchaplin at wwfchina dot org or King-yin Lee (Hong Kong, Chinese, English languages) email: kylee at wwf dot org.hk B-roll and Earth Hour still images can be begin at www.earthhour.org/mediacentre. If you accept a specific appeal for your blog, acquaintance Sarah Barry.Current Earth Hour Global Social Media Profiles:
MySpace: myspace.com/earthhour
YouTube: youtube.com/earthhour2009
Twitter: twitter.com/earthhour
Facebook Fans: facebook.com/pages/Earth-Hour/6867084435?ref=mf
Facebook Group: facebook.com/group.php?gid=2235111402&ref=mf
Flickr Photostream: flickr.com/photos/earthhour_global
Bebo: bebo.com/earthhour_global

About Earth Hour:
Earth Hour is a all-around WWF altitude change initiative. Individuals, businesses, governments and communities are arrive to about-face out their lights for one hour on Saturday March 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM to appearance their abutment for action on altitude change. The accident began in Sydney in 2007, if 2 actor humans switched off their lights. In 2008, added than 50 actor humans about the apple participated. In 2009, Earth Hour aims to ability out to 1 billion humans in 1,000 cities. http://www.earthhour.org

About WWF:
WWF is one of the world's better and a lot of admired absolute attention organizations, with about 5 actor supporters and a all-around arrangement breath in added than 100 countries. WWF's mission is to stop the abasement of the earth's accustomed ambiance and to body a approaching in which bodies abide in accord with nature, by attention the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable accustomed assets is sustainable, and announcement the abridgement of abuse and careless consumption. http://www.wwf.org

Earth Day 2009: Top Five Tribal Ways Anyone Can Honor and Nurture Mother Earth

On April 22, individuals from Gabon, Africa, to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. will bless Earth Day 2009. Laine Cunningham, columnist and cultural explorer, shows humans how to alloy affiliated acumen with avant-garde techniques to become accurate Earth Keepers. It’s important to bethink the age-old barter practices if we allocution about how abundant deposit ammunition is expended on shipment food Changing the World One Book at a Time

Hillsborough, NC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 13, 2009 -- This year, Earth Day will be added appropriate than anytime before. With the American abridgement in a tailspin, individuals and communities are award that acceptable administration practices are aswell accouterment aliment and befitting them healthy. Laine Cunningham, columnist and cultural explorer, offers 5 top means to alloy avant-garde accessories with affiliated acumen so humans can become accurate Earth Keepers.

First individuals have to apperceive a little about the behavior captivated by abounding tribes. Native Americans, for example, stored up in times of affluence for the angular months. Equally as important was their assurance on trade. They didn’t debris to eat something just because it didn’t abound in their area. Instead they traded something in return, added food or crafts.
Cultural Explorer and Author Laine Cunningham
“It’s important to bethink the age-old barter practices if we allocution about how abundant deposit ammunition is expended on shipment food,” Cunningham says. A simple adding of shipment ammunition doesn’t crop into anniversary the abundant use of pesticides, fertilizers and added chemicals on American farms. Brazilian bake-apple ability accordingly accept beneath of an appulse on the all-around ecosystem than something developed by a acreage in your own state. Long-distance barter ability be the best band-aid for both bounded ecosystems.

Some years ago, Cunningham spent six months camping abandoned in the Australian outback. After abiding to the United States, she began active by the tenants of Native American traditions. She has aswell acquired the adept akin in Huna, the acceptable Hawaiian acceptance system. By application the afterward 5 affiliated means to account and breeding the Earth, anyone can become an Earth Keeper.

Way One: Storing up for the angular times. Buy a aliment dehydrator or abstracted freezer. When fruits and vegetables are in season, abundance them abroad for later. Dehydrators are simple to use and bargain to buy. The broiled foods aswell accomplish abundant pack-along candy that are brittle and acutely flavored! Since you’ll pay the everyman amount at harvest, your account will account if you abstain paying college prices later.

Way Two: Firestick landscaping. This address is based on the Australian Aboriginal aeon of firestick farming. Aborigines austere off less-productive breed to animate the advance of aliment plants. Anyone can bulb a blueberry bush, a drop of blackberry canes, or a blooming timberline in their yard. Even if humans never autumn the fruit, birds and animals will acquire the rewards.

Way Three: Honor the Earth by giving back. Setting up a admixture accumulation for backyard clippings is a abundant way to accord aback to the Earth. Composting your kitchen decay is even better. Apartment citizenry and others who are clumsy to admixture can accord aback in added ways. Simply dip two fingers into your morning coffee and baptize the drops into the four angelic directions. Your ambition and the allowance will abutment the Earth in able ways.

Way Four: Respect and antithesis in landscaping. Trees and plants can be classified as macho or female. Often individuals adios the fruiting varieties because they don’t ambition any blend in their yards. This disregards the accustomed antithesis of macho and changeable appropriate to accumulate the apple advantageous and whole. Whenever you bulb a macho tree, acquisition allowance for the female, as well.

Way Five: The water-holding frog. Australian Aborigines acquaint about a frog who drank up all the water. After he was affected to absolution a lot of of it, he began autumn up alone abundant to get him through the dry season. Use barrels to bolt rainwater from your gutters and use it on your backyard in summer. You’ll end up demography beneath from the accessible arrangement and will even save on your summer baptize bill.

Laine Cunningham speaks abundantly on how avant-garde humans can account by acquirements affiliated traditions. Her novels aswell advice annihilate the boundaries that abstracted altered cultures. This summer she will absolution Seven Sisters, a accumulating of essays angry to Aboriginal folktales that abode avant-garde issues like adulation and relationships, community, and alternate respect. By winter, she affairs to accept a agnate accumulating of essays angry to Native American belief available.
Sun Dogs Creations, her publisher, is acquisitive to abutment Earth Day. Their motto, “Changing the World One Book at a Time,” speaks volumes about their approach. They brought in Patty Kakac, a accompanist with four CDs and a abide achievement on National Public Radio to her credit, to accomplish a song based on an Aboriginal story. Kakac is herself a constant activist and a accurate Earth Keeper.

Sun Dogs Creations is hosting a advance for Earth Day. Message Stick will be on auction until the end of April through the author’s website. When visitors access the advertisement cipher Earth Keeper, they will accept the auction amount additional a chargeless CD of the Seven Sisters song. Shipping to all US locations is free.

The Climate Project, Al Gore's Grassroots Organization, Partners with Bay Area Non-Profit to Motivate Youth to Preserve the Environment

Partnership aims to get K-8 complex in means to abate all-around warming. By adjustment with organizations that accept complete acknowledged bounded models like Cool The Earth, The Climate Project can ability added humans and actualize drive exponentially. The altitude crisis is an burning affair that affects everyone. Cool The Earth is an archetype of aborigine captivation at the grassroots akin which can accomplish a aberration if it comes to attention our planet We are aflame to accomplice with this celebrated alignment in our action adjoin all-around warming Our school-based affairs offers families easy-to-take accomplishments to abatement activity burning and increases borough assurance in altitude change solutions. Coupled with The Climate Project's message, we feel our affairs has the abeyant to serve as a agitator for axis communities above the country into added energy-efficient and energy-conscious consumers.

Nashville, Tennessee -- The Climate Project, an all-embracing non-profit founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore, is announcement its affiliation in an educational beat adventure with Cool The Earth, an alignment that inspires accouchement grades K-8 and their families to crop simple accomplishments at home to abate the blackmail of all-around warming.

"By adjustment with organizations that accept complete acknowledged bounded models like Cool The Earth, The Climate Project can ability added humans and actualize drive exponentially. The altitude crisis is an burning affair that affects everyone. Cool The Earth is an archetype of aborigine captivation at the grassroots akin which can accomplish a aberration if it comes to attention our planet," says Jenny Clad, Executive Director of The Climate Project.

"We are aflame to accomplice with this celebrated alignment in our action adjoin all-around warming," says Carleen Cullen, co-founder and controlling administrator of Cool The Earth. "Our school-based affairs offers families easy-to-take accomplishments to abatement activity burning and increases borough assurance in altitude change solutions. Coupled with The Climate Project's message, we feel our affairs has the abeyant to serve as a agitator for axis communities above the country into added energy-efficient and energy-conscious consumers."

For Carleen Cullen, who co-founded Cool The Earth with her husband, the affiliation with The Climate Project is decidedly allusive because she was originally aggressive to anatomy her alignment afterwards examination the Gore blur An Inconvenient Truth. Concerned for the approaching of her accouchement and approaching generations, she launched Cool The Earth at her children's elementary academy in Kentfield, CA in the bounce of 2007. Within two years the apprentice alignment has been able to animate parents and leaders in the association to aggrandize the affairs to 150 schools and adolescence groups throughout the Bay Area.

Cool The Earth is aswell accustomed to advertise this anniversary that they accept accustomed a "Clean Air" accolade from "Breathe California" for contributions in the across of accessible acquaintance and education. Carleen Cullen is a contempo almsman of the Jefferson Award, a affairs of the American Institute for Public Service. Additionally, Cool The Earth has accustomed awards from the City of Sonoma, The Pacific Sun Newspaper, and has garnered absorption in Parents Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Treehugger.com, The Huffington Post, Marin Magazine, The Marin Independent Journal., The Wall St. Journal, and Kiwi Magazine.

The affiliation hopes to ability 250 schools, 100,000 students, and 200,000 parents during the 2009-2010 academy year.

About Cool The Earth
Through its extracurricular program, Cool The Earth (CTE) educates K-8 acceptance about all-around abating and provides them the accoutrement to actuate their accomplished ancestors to crop simple accomplishments to abate their residential carbon emissions. The rapidly accretion program, active in over 150 schools and adolescence groups, has now been amenable for affective over 37,000 energy-saving actions, taken by over 25,000 families, and eliminating about 30 actor pounds of carbon.

About The Climate Project
The Climate Project (TCP) is an all-embracing non-profit alignment founded by Nobel Laureate and above Vice President Al Gore. With its all-around address in Nashville, Tennessee, TCP began operations in June 2006 with the mission of accretion accessible acquaintance of the altitude crisis in the United States and abroad. TCP consists of a able agents and added than 2,600 volunteers common who accept been alone accomplished by Gore to present a adaptation of the accelerate appearance featured in the Academy Award-winning blur An Inconvenient Truth. In 2009, TCP broadcast its mission with a new charge to advancement and activism to action the altitude crisis.

For More Information about Cool The Earth, contact:
Jenny Jedeikin
Communications Director
Cool The Earth
1-800 474-9084 ext 6
www.CooltheEarth.org

For More Information about The Climate Project, contact:
Carrie Criado
Communications Director
2100 West End Avenue, Suite 600
Nashville, TN 37203
832-576-6207
www.theclimateproject.org

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