A Weekly Challenge!

Hi everyone, today I will give you guys a weekly challenge! So basically this week you will be celebrating Earth Hour a bit everyday. Not by turning off all the lights in your house for one hour every day (well if you want to you can) but you can do this by doing one little thing you usually would do on Earth Hour.   ( By the way if you don't know what Earth Hour is, I made the previous post talk about Earth Hour).Here I will list five examples of what you can do on a daily basis ( at least for this week)

1. Turn off your lights: This is an easy one because that is what Earth Hour is
   all about.
2. Unplug your electronics: Earth Hour is not just about turning of lights in your
   home, it is also about energy conservation. Unplugging your electronics is
   a good way to conserve energy in your home.
3. Turn off the television: When was the last time your family and you sat around
   with candles, just talking, playing a game, or reading? The television
   uses energy, so turn it off for the hour and discover the art of
   communication and reading again.
4. Replace incandescent bulbs with CFLs: CFL bulbs not only use about one-fifth of
   the energy that a typical incandescent light does, they also last up to
   ten times as long.
5. Turn off the porch lights: Some homeowners only turn off the lights inside
   their house, while leaving their porch light on. For Earth Hour, how about
   turning off that light too?

Ps: Be green and don't forget to celebrate Earth Hour on March Saturday the 29th 2014!!!By: Stella.E

Earth Hour!

1. What is Earth Hour?
   Earth Hour is a wdorldwide grassroots movement uniting people to protect the planet, and is organised by WWF. Engaging a massive mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues, Earth Hour was famously started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007.  Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide, and the one-hour event continues to remain the key driver of the now larger movement
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3. What is Earth Hour Blue?
   Earth Hour Blue is an all-new digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet launched in 2014 to capture the power of the crowd and engage people around the world beyond the lights out event. The crowdfunding section of the platform allows participants to financially support and deliver positive, tangible changes to the environment and communities all over the world. Individuals can also use Earth Hour Blue’s crowdsourcing platform, which will call for people to add their voice to some of the biggest environmental campaigns across the world.
4. When does Earth Hour take place?
   Earth Hour 2014 will be held on Saturday 29 March between 8.30PM and 9.30PM in your local time zone. The event is held worldwide towards the end of March annually, encouraging individuals, communities households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol for their commitment to the planet. Earth Hour 2015 will take place on Saturday, 28 of March at 8:30PM to 9:30PM in your local timezone.
5. What does Earth Hour aim to achieve?
   Earth Hour aims to encourage an interconnected global community to share the opportunities and challenges of creating a sustainable world.
6. What does Earth Hour ask people to do?
   The first thing anyone can do to get involved is to turn off their lights on Saturday. But there’s much, much more. But our full ambition is for people to take action beyond the hour. Whether it’s supporting a crowdfunding or crowdsroucing campaign onwww.earthhour.org or getting involved in Earth Hour campaigns in their own country, or starting the movement in their own community. The vision is always to do more, so make the light switch the beginning of your journey.
7. How long has Earth Hour been going for?
   The first Earth Hour event was on March 31 2007. WWF-Australia inspired Sydney-siders to show their support for climate change action. More than 2.2 million individuals and 2,000 businesses turned their lights out for one hour in the first Earth Hour event.

   Earth Hour 2014 will mark the eighth year of the campaign.
8. Is Earth Hour an annual event?
   Earth Hour is more than annual event – it is a movement that culminates in an hour of inspiration across the world held towards the end of March each year. 
9. What exactly has Earth Hour achieved before launching Earth Hour Blue?
   • WWF Uganda started the world’s first Earth Hour Forest
   • More than 250,000 Russians voiced support for better protection of their country’s seas and forests
   • Argentina used its 2013 Earth Hour campaign to help pass a Senate bill for a 3.4 million hectare Marine Protected Area in the country
   • Thousands of wood-saving stoves were distributed to families in Madagascar
   • Solar-powered lights were installed in three villages without electricity in India
   • In Paraguay, WWF used the Earth Hour platform to build public support to gain an extension of the logging moratorium, helping to reduce deforestation
   • Education programs for schools were launched in Thailand and Taiwan
   • Hundreds of thousands of LED lights were installed by girl scouts in the USA
   • More than 2123 mitigation actions submitted by Earth Hour City Challenge 2014 participating cities

   But this is just the start, there’s so many more Earth Hour stories out there we’re still discovering, and of course much more to do.
10. Back to the event. Isn't switching the lights off dangerous? What about public safety?
    Earth Hour only asks people to turn off the non-essential lights for one hour - not lights that affect public safety. Earth Hour is also a celebration of the planet so it’s important to enjoy the moment in a safe environment.
11. What lights can be safely switched off?
    That is a decision that has to be made individually but usually the overhead lights in rooms (whether it is your house or a business), outdoor lighting that does not impact safety, decorative lights, neon signs for advertising, televisions, desk lamps, the list goes on and on.

    There are a few lights we can say with certainty that should NOT be turned off, including safety lights in public spaces, lights for aviation guidance, traffic lights, security lights, just to name a few. We ask people to use common sense. Before you turn off any lights for public spaces, Earth Hour recommends you check with local officials or community centres.

    In your own home, use common sense with respect to safety. Keep small night lights on for basic safety especially in halls and on stairs. Make sure you have alternative light sources handy before Earth Hour starts, like torches or flashlights. That way if you need to see, you have a light source close at hand, and you can still respect the spirit of Earth Hour and keep yourself and your family safe.
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13. What candles should I use for my Earth Hour event?
    If you plan on burning candles during Earth Hour, make sure you use 100% beeswax candles or soy candles, which are gentler on our planet - smoke free, non-toxic and non-allergenic. They are also made of natural products, not petroleum-based materials, so they are effectively carbon neutral (the CO2 they emit has already been taken from the atmosphere to produce the wax). Many communities are now replacing candles with LED lights for their event, as a way to promote energy efficient lighting - a key for any sustainable future. If you're using candles, though, make sure you take care. If you would like to get  candles for this event or other events go on www. pariscandles.com and go ahead and celebrate earth hour.
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15. Don't forget to be green
16. By: WWF and Stella.E (this information has been used from WWF)

Snip six pack rings

Hi everyone, the challenge that I am about to give you is a challenge for every day. This challenge is not even hard. It doesn't make a change to you but it can if we all participate. We've all seen plastic six pack rings, the little plastic circles that hold together six packs of canned drinks. Most people throw them as soon as they are done using them, right?

 Well, believe it or not that is your chance when you can help save sea life. The reason why we are doing this challenge is because a lot of sea creatures get harmed by these six pack rings and also from other horrible things. Many six pack rings wind up in the ocean because sometimes people leave them on the beach or other times they are put in dumps near the water and the wind blows them into the sea.That is when animals get stuck in them and suffer then eventually die either starve or get strangled.What you have to do is very simple, before you toss six pack rings in the garbage, snip each circle with scissors. Once the rings are cut, no animal can get caught in them!

 One more thing, when you are taking a walk, and you see six pack rings pick them up snip them and throw them in the garbage. You see it is not that bad.
(Sorry I couldn't put any pictures)
Ps: be greenBy: Stella.E

THINK OF THE TREES!!!

Hi everyone I just felt like showing you all this little quote that my cousin thought of. I decided to show it to you guys because I thought it was sweet and she does has a point. You will understand as you read it.

"Trees have hearts so please save them"
    
       - Georgia.A

Don't forget about plants because first of all trees are part of plants in general and because they are special also!

Ps: Be green

By: Stella.E

It should be off if you are not using it.

Hi everyone, today I want to do a challenge but I mainly want to focus on air pollution. I mainly want to focus on air pollution because this is a big problem all around the world!

 

 

 So I think that todays challenge should be that if you are driving your car and you want top pullover to wait for a friend to come or for any other reason don't leave the engine running for  no reason. This is not only todays challenge, it is also tomorrows challenge.

Ps: Be green

By: Stella.E

Turn it off when you are not using it.

Hello everyone, today I need to tell you guys something about your tv's. Usually you watch a movie or a show, basically you watch tv and some of you guys fall asleep or and leave the tv on or you just leave the tv on when you're not using it and that is wrong! Todays challenge is to turn off the tv (witch means dont turn it on obviously) for at least 2 days and if you can try to continue.

I also wanted to say one challenge might last for a week sometimes. Like example this challenge lasts for two days but I will still give you guys a new challenge tomorrow. I know it seems a bit (okay maybe very challenging) challenging but you guys can handle it. If some of you guys dont have a tv, here I will give you guys a mini challenge:

Mini challenge:
Try to use about half the amout of water that you use  usually.
( sometimes I might forget to wite a challenge or a mini challenge but that doesnt mean Im quiting or something and if I do forget just make up your own challenge of the day and if you really like it send me it in the coments, dont be afraid to ask questions or to leave a coment, I dont bite! Also if you guys dont agree with something I write just tell me (coment), i would be glad to fix something up or if you guys want me to write something specific you guys are free to request anything you like.)

(When I say "guys" I dont mean men, I mean everybody, so Im just talking to you "guys".)

Be green!
By Stella.E

(Sorry that I dont put pictures that often, my computer just broke so I have to use my Ipad to blog.(if one of you guys know how to put pictures on the post from the Ipad Id be glad to know,thank you guys for participating!)I also wanted to say that there is a question that I put up, dont be afraid to vote because I dont know if you guys are experts on being green.)

Re use

Hi everyone sorry about this week (not enough time) anyway today we will all learn to reuse our stuff. Let's say you have many books you have read or you don't want I think you should give them to people that are interested in reading them. If nobody likes the books you have ( I wonder if that will ever happen?) just throw them out! Remember not in the garbage, in the recycling!!

Ps: be green

By: Stella

Don't waste energy!!

Hi everybody, today's challenge is all about saving energy. A lot of you guys think you are good environmentalists but some of you forget.... Wen you're charging or electronics you usually leave them charge over night but by doing that after you get full battery you Are still sleeping and you are using energy for nothing and also your electronic device can get destroyed this way.

Ps: be green 
By:  Stella

Please throw garbage in the garbage can!

Hi everyone, if I end up writing a post one day please do it on the day and if the next day I do not have time to write a post you can simply do the post that was for the day before. Anyway today I want to tell you guys something, sometimes I go to a city park or in a green area I see garbage cans,   then I see garbage all around them so I figure that the can must be full then I go check and no I was wrong, the can is barely full. Please actually throw garbage where it belongs because I can get really frustrated  with these kind of things. 

Ps: be green
By: Stella

Quit smoking!

Hi everyone, I know I have not written any posts for a couple of days but it is hard for me to always write a new post. I am really busy this year but do not worry at all I will always try my hardest to make time for you guys. Anyway today we will do a challenge to help air pollution stop. Air pollution is what I really want to work on this year because this is affecting our environment a lot this generation. The challenge is something mostly for the adults. I know this might seem weird but you can atleast try, taday try not to smoke any cigarettes or cigars... Believe it or not this affects our environment and your health. I he you guys try to do this and please tell people about 1actaday because the more people the bigger the difference.

For everyone who does not smoke or is a child here is a mini challenge:
Eat healthy all day. I know you might think "all the leftovers of my food like (apple coars, banaa peels, leftover vegies...) still go to garbage." If you leave them in your garden or in a grassy area eventually they will slowly "melt" into the ground and that will fertilize the ground believe it or not.

Hope you and your friends participate!

Ps: be green

By: Stella