Earth Hour 2008 @ ANU

You can do your part to save the earth, even if it's just one hour.

Earth Hour is an international event where households and businesses turn off their lights and electrical appliances for one hour.

This happens on the evening of 29 March at 8 pm local time until 9 pm to promote electricity conservation. The underlying motive is to reduce emission of carbon dioxide and green-house gases.

A cool picture - showing how many people in this world actually take Earth Hour up.

The main event was actually held in Sydney where you can really notice that most of the lights are switched off during the Earth Hour. However, ANU did its part too in this global call for energy conservation.

Candles on the plains : A. N. U.

Basically what ANU does is that they have a gathering over at Fellows Oval which started at 6pm. I did not attend it as I have some dinner with a bunch of my good friends here. (hence the lack of pictures from 6 - 8).

They had some free BBQ barbeque over there as well as some activities (that I am aware of). The main thing starts at 8 pm. Other residential halls in ANU as well as UniLodge took part in this event.

Tea-light candles protected with waxed paper, creating a calm and nostalgic scene

During the darkened hour, they had a display of a four men crew of fire-jugglers. It was quite and amazing feat to witness. They had samba music accompanying the stunts.


About Earth Hour

The volunteers for the event playing the samba beat that makes you feel like dancing

The people from Malaysia, China and Australia.

Here in Down Under, Earth Hour is promoted by World Wildlife Fund Australia (WWF) and the Sydney Morning Herald. Yes, you may think "One hour? What difference does that make?". Believe me, it really does.

My best picture for the night : Fire Phoenix and some weird doodle of a face. I like the Phoenix more.

The phoenix moving around in a blurry burst of flame

Last year, in Sydney alone during the very first Earth Hour, there was a massive 10.2% reduction in electricity consumption - where households switched off their non-essential appliances and businesses switching off their machines.

Over 2.2 million Sydney residents and over 2,100 businesses took part last year.

Looks like a swirling flame.

A fiery heart - that is what I am.

Imagine the difference the world can make in just an hour. With more and more people and business taking part in this event, we could do something to save and protect our future generations.

I really don't know how to label this picture. It still looks cool in my opinion.

The performer throwing his staff up

There were various critics regarding this event as well as anti Earth Hour groups. However, this event does create an awareness regarding this major issue - the greatest contributor to global warming is green-house gases, caused by coal-powered electricity.

I like this picture after the Phoenix one : It's like a long serpent unwinding itself.

This looks like Cloud doing his omni-slash from FF VII

For more pictures or news regarding this event you can always head to their official website http://www.earthhour.org.

As for ANU, I tried to upload the best pictures that I have taken. They are not really impressive some of them when compared to my friend's, who took the pictures with a Digital SLR.

Finally here are some extra photographs that are worth posting.

The above really looks like this --> o.O

I may not have any knowledge in Mandarin at all but the above really looks like some Chinese symbols though.

An array of fiery displays.

I actually thought it was a Terminator coming out from a time - vortex.

At the end of the day


At the end of the day, it's all about what you do now that will affect your world in the future. And hence, do your part to save the world. A little now may make a big difference later on.

The lighted path leading back to UniLodge