Sunday, March 29, 2009

Earth Hour



It was Singapore’s First. And Singapore showed the world how to start the year with this event. Morre than 4,000 cities joined Earth Hour 2009 more than last year’s number. Earth Hour is an event organized by World Wide Fund for Nature. It is held on the last Saturday of March every year. We only need to off non-essentials lights and other electrical appliances for an hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Many cities adopted this event on 2008 after Sydney took the lead. The lights are turn off from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time. The response were overwhelming and we can see many younger generation are stepping up for this earth awareness. We will soon see more of this in the future when our younger generation starts to lead.

Before 28th March 2009 , volunteers of different age help in organizing events and in selling of items at booth. Some of scouts even take up some of their weekend to help out for this event. It was like any other family day but with something in mind “To Help Reduce Carbon Emission”.

If there is one thing that the government should be aware of is to make this event islandwide where all the landmarks were to participate including HDBs. With this, it will become a practice of turn off appliances or switches that are unnecessary.

The Beatty Rovers would like to thank our brothers Oliver and Sijie from Scouts for their time and their effort that make this possible.

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Apple and Jane from WWF for giving us the opportunity to show our support , care and concern for our future.

“For a better world, For a better future”

- Muhd Isa , Beatty Rover

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