The Earth Hour 2011

Taken from Google

Today marks another hour for us to turn our light off from 8:30pm to 9:30pm to help mother nature as well as to conserve energy and lessen carbon footprints contributed in our everyday life.

In its fourth year in the Philippines, the Earth Hour is anticipated by those (including me) who wanted to contribute to help preserve our planet and its resources. 

For those who don't know, The Philippines topped global Earth Hour participation levels for both 2009 and 2010. Ten million Filipinos in 647 towns, cities and municipalities switched off in 2009, while 15 million Filipinos in 1076 towns and cities joined the 2010 switch-off. Over a billion people from 128 countries participated in Earth Hour 2010 – marking it as the largest environmental event in known human history. I hope we could do a Grand Slam this year XD. 

To know more about the Earth Hour, you may check the links here, here, and here. 

As for me, I'll go beyond Earth Hour and will do this probably on a monthly, weekly or on a daily basis. Since its just an hour right?

Gotta wake my wife up since we need to got to Kowloon West in West Ave to meet some of her friends there XD

Today is World Water Day 2011

I should have wrote about this earlier but since I just know this event a few minutes back after receiving an email from our corporate office in the US, I'll write about it now XD.

Taken from Google.

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. On this page, we present a brief overview of the different themes that have been the focus of World Water Day celebrations.

Here in the Philippines, President Benigno Aquino III lead the event which was held at SM Mall of Asia early this morning.

To know more about the event, you may check the links here, here, and here.

Happy World Water Day to everyone XD