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5 Reasons to Observe Earth Hour
1) Save money, from utilities to transportation, to health care costs. 2) Create clean, renewable energy jobs and whole new industries and economies. 3) Reduce homeland and national security threats. 4) Create a cleaner environment and all it’s benefits. 5) Create a sustainable future for generations to come.
Observe Earth Hour 2011, 8:30PM to 9:30PM, Saturday, March 26th.
Start planning now! Invite neighbors over! Get together in your backyards to enjoy the night sky! Read and talk about the issue, about reducing your carbon footprint, how you’ve saved money and can save even more. Plan a dinner by candlelight at home or at participating restaurants, invite family and friends, write a ‘Letter to the Editor’ or person in a position ‘to make a difference’, play cards, board games, or read about the issue by flashlight. Answer the citywide, Alternative Transportation Challenge for the week of Earth Hour! Commemorate the event by adding to your efficiency and safety equipment: buy a solar or human-powered flashlight, battery or cell phone charger, etc, from a participating merchant! Make it fun and educational! Connect with friends and neighbors locally and around the world to make a difference, not just for one hour, but forever!
EARTH HOUR PROCLAMATION READING and 'GREEN TOUR' CITY HALL
Don’t forget to join us for the Earth Hour “Kickoff” Event Tuesday, March 22nd! There will be a ‘Green Building Tour’ of our new City Hall expansion at 9AM and a ‘Reading of the Proclamation’ along with an Earth Hour Week Alternative Transportation Challenge at 10AM in the Council Chambers immediately following the ‘Green Building Tour’ to meet in the lobby.
SOME PICTURES FROM THAT EVENT(click to enlarge)
Link to 2011 Earth Hour Declaration
COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPECIAL EARTH HOUR COMMEMORATIVE EVENT
Columbia Public Schools, collaborating with filmmakers Paula Elias and Ken Leija, Daniel Boone Regional Library and Columbia Climate Change Coalition, is hosting an Earth Hour commemorative screening of the documentary, The Eco Schoolhouse, at Daniel Boone Regional Library Wednesday, March 23rd, 4 PM with an actual tour of the Eco Schoolhouse immediately following as participants take the short walk over to tour the Schoolhouse at Grant Elementary, welcomed by Grant's Principal Beverly Borduin.
STARGAZE at MU OBSERVATORY
Stargaze for Earth Hour at Laws Observatory’s “Green Laser Sky Tour” Saturday, March 26th, starting at 8:30PM. Coffee, Cake, and Candlelight will be by Starbuck’s, 2505 E. Broadway, Hy-Vee on Nifong, and the Central Missouri Astronomical Association. The observatory is located in the Physics building on the MU Campus near the Life Sciences building at Rollins and College.
Enjoy dinner by candlelight at any of these participating restaurants: Flatbranch Pub and Brewery, Sycamore, Bleu, Addison's an American Grill, Uprise Bakery or Sophia's.
RAGTAG cinema (10 S. Hitt) will have free, human powered cell phone charging during Earth Hour. Stop on by!! Join artists at Orr Street Studios in celebrating Earth Hour by "Painting Under Candlelight"! Bring your candles and painting supplies. Enjoy a glass of wine with us, Saturday, March 26th, from 8:30 to 9:30. Thank participating businesses/entities for their efforts toward greater sustainability and helping you observe Earth Hour!
AS AN EARTH HOUR FOLLOW-UP:BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SUPPLYThe FOOD REVOLUTION – Missouri’s Food Supply & Public Health
Healthy Food, Healthy People, Healthy Lands Columbia Climate Change Coalition will table at the event sponsored by The Raw Food Feasters – Columbia, Mo for info: 573 875 8787 or 703 577 7716 Delicious, healthy refreshments served at 6:30 pm (after the talk). Please join us! Sunday, April 3rd, 3 pm, at the Columbia Public Library
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LOCAL COVERAGE FOR THE EVENTColumbia TribuneColumbia Missourian
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LAST YEAR'S EARTH HOUR
Representatives from City of Columbia, University of Missouri, Columbia Public Schools, League of Women Voters, PedNet, and the Columbia Climate Change Coalition attended the declaration.
Read Full Proclamation here.
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Earth Hour downtown, Columbia, Missouri, 2010
Before Earth Hour
During Earth Hour!
Many thanks to everyone who participated!!
Columbia Water and Light reported a 1.58 megawatt-hour drop in usage for the hour (better than last year). This is the average amount of electricity that 1480 homes would use for that hour, and it avoided the emissions of as much CO2 as taking 240 cars off the road for a day. Thanks everyone!!
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EARTH HOUR INVITATION
Columbians are being urged by Mayoral Proclamation to observe Earth Hour! Saturday, March 27th, 2010, 8:30PM-9:30PM, Columbians and area citizens will turn off lights and non-essential electricity in homes and buildings to take part in a symbolic “wave of darkness” encircling the globe, in solidarity with world citizens, to pledge their support for a sustainable future on planet Earth.
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 climate change. A year later Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating, including Columbians! Global landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome's Colosseum, stood in darkness, as symbols of hope and solidarity for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.
In 2009, millions, in over 4000 cities in 88 countries, “switched-off” pledging support to reduce the effect of global climate change. Join with your fellow Columbians for Earth Hour 2010, brought to you by the Columbia Climate Change Coalition, with participation from Mayor Darwin Hindman, the Columbia City Council, the City of Columbia, and other community organizations, businesses, and schools. Join citizens 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 2010, Saturday, March 27th, 8:30PM-9:30PM. 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! Plan a dinner by candle light, invite family and friends---play cards, board games, read a book by flashlight. 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!!!
Help make international Earth Hour 2010 the biggest yet!!
Register participation by reply to this invitation: mntwelch@peoplepc.com or call (573) 443-4717 or (573) 777-2216
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!
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MyMissourian coverage of the event
More Than 5 Reasons to Observe Earth Hour
Earth Hour has become a global sustainability movement in 3 years. Last year, more than 4,000 major cities in 88 countries “switched-off” non-essential electricity to call for our leaders to move strongly towards a renewable, more sustainable energy future for all countries on the planet.
If you can agree with any one or more of these reasons why sustainability would be a good idea, then you should try to participate in Earth Hour and send a message to everyone that you support creating a sustainable future.
1) Save money, from utilities to transportation, to health care costs.
2) Create clean, renewable energy jobs and whole new industries and economies.
3) Reduce homeland and national security threats.
4) Create a cleaner environment and all it’s benefits.
5) Create a sustainable future for generations to come.
Columbia’s Mayor, Darwin Hindman, with the vote of the City Council, just issued a Proclamation for Earth Hour Day and Hour, Saturday, March 27th, 8:30 pm-9:30pm, urging participation, discussing the issue, turning off non-essential electricity and “voting with your switch”! Read his Proclamation, find out about Earth Hour, ways to participate, what’s going on in Columbia, and more ideas to “go green” at www.ColumbiaClimateChangeCoalition.org .
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