Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney’s lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time.

In the same page, all the achievements were highlighted. Every hour, the organizer hope to outdo the previous year in term of participants, reduction of power consumption in the hour etc.

But in between the year, does the overall power consumption reduced?
Do these supporters committed to a reduction in power consumption for the year ahead?
Do these supporters support the Earth Hour for publicity or image purpose?
Or after the Earth Hour, life goes back to usual?

Just this afternoon, I saw a friend commented on the Facebook on how cold it was in a government building due to air-conditioning. This is a wastage of energy. So much for the supporter’s commitment.

I hope that, this year, it would be a difference. A difference that every supporters really committed to the taking action to reduce power consumption and counter climate change.

For me, I will not switch my lights off for this purpose. I believe that it is a on-going process to counter climate change.

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What do CD and DVD stand for?

I simply replied as follows:
CD stands for “Compact Disc”
DVD stands for “Digital Versatile Disc” or “Digital Video Disc”

Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd

After I replied, I found that there is a few others who gave similar answers.

To my surprised, mine was voted as the best answer.
Celebrate!!!!!!

Wikipedia had been making my life simple.

During my school days, I always have to visit the library for my school project. I have to go through the thick encyclopedia to find the summary of what I need to research on. To keep the information, I need to carry the thick book for photocopying.

Nowadays, I hardly need to go to the library to achieve the same result. I just need to go to Wikipedia. It is a great starting point for my research. I can find almost anything in the Wikipedia. The most important is that, it is FREE!!!

Now, Wikipedia need to raise fund. I think it is time to give back what I had taken so far. It does not matter how little is the amount. It may be a small amount. With the many others who also contribute, I believe it would accumulate to expected amount.

Let us all support the good cause, a small amount to keep the such a great tools FREE.