WE can solve the climate crisis!
April 5, 2008 by Epiphany
Filed under Environment, Featured
Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore has launched his new WE Campaign website www.wecansolveit.org. The ultimate goal of this site is to halt global warming and they are taking the first step by educating people about the climate crisis, emphasizing that it is urgent, and reminding us that it is solvable. WE is about coming together to solve a problem that effects us all.
The WE website offers you many ways to take action. You can sign a petition for a global treaty on climate change, you can tell you friends about their latest video, you can urge the press to ask about global warming, and even ask lenders to consider climate impact when funding new coal plants. And they offer some great solutions to the crisis:
- Clean Energy Economy
- Personal Choices
- Adoption of Renewables
- Enhanced Energy Efficiency
- Innovative Leadership
If you haven’t already started seeing the WE media blitz, you won’t have to look too hard. You’ll begin seeing TV spots, print ads, social networks and more buzzing about it. Al Gore is giving this his all. On March 30, 2008, he appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes to discuss the launch of the We Campaign. You can check out a short clip from the piece below.
[Download the Al Gore on 60 Minutes Video here]
Join Us For Earth Hour! March 29th, 2008
March 16, 2008 by Epiphany
Filed under Environment
On March 31st of last year, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour. They called it “Earth Hour.” If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.
The goal was to inspire people to take action against climate change. And inspire it did! Unique events such as weddings by candlelight were reported and major Sydney icons like the Harbour Bridge and Opera House joined the movement by turning their lights off as well. The world took notice. Inspired by the collective effort of millions during last years event in Sydney, many major global cities are joining Earth Hour in 2008, turning a symbolic event into a global movement.
Earth Hour is March 29, 2008 from 8 – 9 PM
Five Things You Can Do:
- Join us! Turn out your lights for one hour on 3/29/08 from 8-9pm.
- Spread the word. Tell your friends, family, community members, & businesses.
- Host a Earth Hour party by candle light. Invite others over for Earth Hour. You can have food, drinks, board games, a barbecue, all by candlelight!
- Use the time to discuss other ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Whether it be replacing your light bulbs or car pooling – there’s a lot you can do.
- Use the time to replace your standard light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
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The 11th Hour Opens Today in LA & NY
August 17, 2007 by Epiphany
Filed under Environment, People
Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour” opens today in Los Angeles and New York! The film is a feature length documentary that gives an honest yet frightening account of our Earth’s current condition and explores the causes of just how we got here. But more than that, the film offers hope by highlighting the fact that we still have a chance to make a difference and heal the damage that has been done. This film will force you to be honest with yourself about what we’ve done to our planet, but it will also give you a better understanding about what we can do to begin repairing the damage. Life as we know it depends on the changes that we make today. Please support this film and do what you can to help save our planet.
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