Earth Hour 2013

Written by Monta Welch.

INTERNATIONAL EARTH HOUR 2013 

YOU’RE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CITY OF COLUMBIA AND SURROUNDING AREA’S ‘EARTH HOUR DAY AND HOUR’ 2013!

PARTICIPATE HERE OR WHERE EVER YOU ARE/COLUMBIA EVENTS BELOW!!! 

The first Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against the human contributions to climate change. From there, Earth Hour has now become a global sustainability movement with hundreds of millions of people, across more than 156 countries and territories in over 7,000 cities and towns, including Columbians, all adding their ‘voices and votes’ by ‘flipping the switch’! Landmarks including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Coliseum, have stood in darkness, each year since, to send a message of solidarity in a critical cause that grows more urgent by the hour!

Every year since Sydney’s beginning of Earth Hour, growing millions have ‘switched-off’ in solidarity, pledging support to act together and this effort has been brought to you by the Columbia Climate Change Coalition, along with participation from Columbia’s Mayors, Darwin Hindman and now Bob McDavid, the Columbia City Council, the City of Columbia, and other organizations, businesses, schools and area faith communities.

 In 2013 Mayor McDavid issues Columbia’s Earth Hour Day and Hour Proclamation, once again, calling on all Columbians to join with the International community to “Switch off”, brought to you again by the Columbia Climate Change Coalition, our Mayor, Columbia’s City Council, the City of Columbia, and other friends, community organizations, businesses, and schools. On Saturday, March 23, 8:30 PM-9:30 PM, please join citizens here and around the world in saving money; reducing our environmental impact; creating “green” jobs and whole new industries and economies; improving our national and homeland security; reducing healthcare costs by improving our health through a cleaner environment; educating about sustainability and the impacts of global climate change; and having fun with family, friends and neighbors all at the same time!

Start planning now to observe Earth Hour 2013, Saturday, March 23, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM! Invite family, friends, and neighbors into backyards, enjoy the night sky! Discuss sustainability, how you’re “going green”, reducing your carbon footprint, saving money and how you plan to save even more! Enjoy a dinner by candlelight at home or at a local, participating restaurant, invite family and friends---discuss the issue, share information or read a book on the topic by flashlight, play cards or board games. Buy a solar or human-powered flashlight for the occasion---expand your safety equipment while boosting the economy. Make it fun and educational! Join others here, wherever you are, and around the world “switching-off” in symbolic solidarity, celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all share---our planet, Earth!!!

Spread the Word! Help make International Earth Hour 2013 the biggest yet!!

THANK YOU FOR ‘SWITCHING OFF’!! 

 HELP ‘SPREAD THE WORD’!!

TWITTER, TWEET, FACEBOOK, EMAIL, FORWARD WIDELY!!

EARTH HOUR 2013

Turn Off Lights & Non-Essential Electricity in Solidarity with World Citizens Pushing For Global Sustainability, Energy, & Environmental Solutions!

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 8:30-9:30 PM

PARTICIPATE AT HOME AND/ OR AT THESE EVENTS

WATCH LANDMARKS DARKEN:

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, JESSE HALL; CITY HALL; DANIEL BOONE REGIONAL LIBRARY! INTERFAITH COMMUNITY RINGS BELLS; BUSINESSES OFFER CANDLELIGHT COFFEE, FOOD; MUSICIANS, ART SHOWINGS BY CANDLELIGHT

EARTH HOUR LEAD-UP EVENTS: 

‘AN EVENING WITH ‘GREEN’ ARCHITECT’, DANIEL KARLOV & ‘FREE’ SCREENING OF EXCELLENT, INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY: ‘DEEP GREEN’

7-9 PM, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, TATE HALL AUDITORIUM, MU CAMPUS

EDUCATIONAL ‘FORUM ON SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE JUSTICE’, WITH QUESTIONS TO  MAYORAL &/OR CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES, 7PM, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, ARTS & SCIENCE BLDG, MU CAMPUS, ROOM 311

EARTH HOUR ‘KICK-OFF’ EVENT, HEAR MAYOR’S EARTH HOUR DAY & HOUR PROCLAMATION; TAKE GREEN TOUR OF LEED CERTIFIED CITY HALL; VISIT WITH ‘GREEN’ ARCHITECT & SEE NET-ZERO AFFORDABLE, DEMONSTRATION HOME PLANS/MODELS; LEE ELMENTARY RECYCLED ART INSTALLATION, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS & LOBBY, 12 NOON -1 PM, BDWY & 8^TH ST!

‘FREE CITY BUS’, ‘ALL DAY’, MARCH 21 (&23), FOR EARTH HOUR ‘KICK-OFF’ DAY!!

EARTH HOUR DAY & HOUR EVENTS:

EARTH HOUR SERVICE PROJECT:

*JOIN ‘EARTH HOUR DAY’ SERVICE PROJECT LAUNCH: Neighborhood Energy, Food Security, Transportation, & Tree Planting ‘GREEN SURVEY’ with ACTION!! JOIN OUR LAUNCH OF ON-GOING/’BEYOND the HOUR’ & KICK-OFF for ‘EARTH HOUR SERVICE PROJECT’!! ALL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! E-MAIL US:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  OR CALL: 573-777-2216

WATCH LANDMARKS GO DARK *8:30 – 9:30 PM*

ENJOY FOOD, DRINK & COMPANIONS AT THE FOLLOWING EARLY, PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES SERVING BY CANDLELIGHT: BLEU, SYCAMORE, ADDISON’S AN AMERICAN GRILL, FLATBRANCH, SOPHIA’S, LAKOTA COFFEE & OTHERS**

ENJOY ACCOUSTIC, SIDEWALK MUSIC IN & NEAR PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES**

OBSERVE INTERNATIONAL EARTH HOUR, IN SOLIDARITY, ‘WHERE EVER YOU ARE’, SATURDAY, 3/23/2013, 8:30 – 9:30 PM!! ‘VOTE WITH YOUR SWITCH’, ‘CONNECT’, THINK ABOUT HOW WE EACH CAN HELP CREATE A SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHIER, CLEAN FUTURE FOR PRESENT & ALL GENERATIONS TO COME!!

TAKE THE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGE:

TAKE “GREEN” TRANSPORTATION: Walk, Bike, Car-pool & Bus—Support Future Health & Sustainability!

CITY BUSES ‘FREE’ ALL DAY ON ‘EARTH HOUR KICK-OFF DAY’ & ‘EARTH HOUR DAY & HOUR’, 3/21 & 3/23!

Ideas to Participate at Home:

Observe Earth Hour 2013, Saturday, March 23, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM where ever you are! Invite family, friends, and neighbors into backyards, enjoy the night sky! Discuss sustainability, how you’re “going green”, reducing your carbon footprint, saving money and how you plan to save even more! Enjoy a dinner by candlelight at home or at a local, participating restaurant, invite family and friends---discuss the issue, share information or read a book on the topic by flashlight, play cards or board games. Buy a solar or human-powered flashlight for the occasion---expand your safety equipment while boosting the economy. Make it fun and educational! Join others here, wherever you are, and around the world “switching-off” in symbolic solidarity, celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all share---our planet, Earth!!!

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: COLUMBIA CLIMATE CHANGE COALITION WITH CITY OF COLUMBIA, CPS, MU, OTHER SCHOOLS, LOCAL BUSINESSES, & COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

THANK YOU FOR ‘SWITCHING OFF’!!  

HELP ‘SPREAD THE WORD’!!

TWITTER, TWEET, FACEBOOK, EMAIL, FORWARD WIDELY!!

FREE City Bus Rides All Day in honour of Earth Hour, 

Thursday, March 21^st, our official ‘Kickoff’ day,

AND  

FREE City Bus Rides All Day on Earth Hour Day, 

Saturday, March 23^rd!!

Earth Hour 2013 Kickoff at City Hall, Thursday, March 21^st,

Noon to about 1 PM,

Downtown Columbia, Missouri, 8^th & Broadway!!

Enjoy a ‘Green Tour’ of LEED Certified City Hall building, view net-zero affordable home models and Q&A with the architect! Take a FREE city bus ride, from the bus stop nearest you, and attend the 5^th Annual International ‘Call to Act’ on Clean, Green Energy also thought of as International Earth Hour and the Earth Hour Kickoff at your LEED Certified City Hall ‘Green Building’, 8^th & Broadway, downtown Columbia, Missouri, 12 Noon to about 1 PM, Thursday, March 21^st! Hear Earth Hour ‘Event Updates’ and the Mayor’s Earth Hour Proclamation, urging participation and observance of Earth Hour, then take a ‘Green Tour’ of LEED City Hall, view model entries in a competition to design and build an energy efficient, affordable, ‘green’ home, then enjoy lunch downtown at our local eateries—many participating for 5 years, now, in candlelight dining for Earth Hour, always the 4^th Saturday in March from 8:30-9:30 PM!

                         EARLY PARTICIPANTS IN COLUMBIA:

The City of Columbia                           Daniel Boone Regional Library                                         

University of Missouri                          Café Berlin

Columbia Public Schools                     Bleu            

MacXprts (Cherry Hill)                         Sycamore Restaurant

Boone County National Bank              Addison’s an American Grill

Landmark Bank                                   Sophia's                                                

Commerce Bank                                  The Blue Note                                                 

Brian Pape, Architect                           MoJo’s                                                                          

Daniel W. Karlov, Architect                  Lakota Coffee

My Secret Garden                                 Sub Shops

Broadway Brewery                               The Candy Factory