Monday, March 2, 2009

Em POWER this HOUR !!! Earth needs our help!

What if YOU did NOTHING, when there was something
you COULD do?????


How will you feel, when you look out your window in Regent Park at 8:31pm - see all the windows dark around you, and know that yours is showing dark back at them all?!!!

Earth Hour, by M and R, grade 5, room 20 and 16

For Earth Hour this year, Nelson Mandela kids will go Global! We will be shutting off our lights in school on Friday, and at home on Saturday night. We will be showing the world that every LITTLE BIT each person does can contribute to the BIG change the world needs if we are going to survive.

Global warming is ruining the earth. If our climate gets warmer, the polar ice will melt, our coastlines will shrink, our barren deserts will grow, and people and animals will die without enough food and water.

People need to be much, much more careful with their energy. We can't keep burning so much wood, gasoline or coal that dirty the air and trap the sun's heat IN our atmosphere.

Earth Hour is on March 28th from 8:30 to 9:30. Governments and people all over the world, more than 84 countries, have promised to take part! Now, again, TORONTO's big buildings will go dark.

Go ahead, look out your window, and you will see the lights go off.

Will you turns yours off too?






Check out these links to learn more about climate change, and the reasons why observing EARTH HOUR is so urgent!


Earth Hour in Toronto

Greenhouse Effect - Junior kids (easier)

Polar Bears - Junior kids (harder)

Climate Change - Junior kids (harder)

Global Warming - Big kids, see presentation

Detective Game/Climate Change (a lot of reading)

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW! I really enjoyed both videos. I am glad I was reminded to do my part. Thank you NMPS!

Anonymous said...

I am superr excited this year for Earth Hour!
Last year I had a blast turning off my lights for an hour
hope to do it again =D

Anonymous said...

People are polluting the world by throwing things in the garbage and not even recycling. This is bad because it can kill the animals and humans on Earth. Humans should recycle and always put their garbage in the garbage can.

Earth Hour is good because it is helping us to use less hydro power.

I will tell ghost stories with lots of candles during Earth Hour because I do that and scare my cousins.

Anonymous said...

Gobal warming is a big deal because the earth will be warmer and the carbon is going in the air.If you want to help, so please
turn off YOUR LIGHT !!!!!

Anonymous said...

The world is getting warmer. The gases are collecting in the sky. And it's not letting the heat come out. Plants and trees are going to die. The ice will melt and polar bears and penguins are going to die too. I am going to turnoff all the electricity for one hour on Saturday to show everybody that we can keep the earth healthy!

Anonymous said...

The weather is getting warmer.The sun is getting brighter.Cince the sun is getting wamer and brighter we are losing all our precious polar bears and peguins are going to die because the ice is melting from the hot sun.So I am going to turn off all my lights in the house just like a black out so we can keep our earth safe and alive.

Anonymous said...

Whats happening in the world is, people are wasting energy by keeping all the lights on and things that carry energy on, because people don't care about our Earth and they don't understand. I know that the Earth is getting worse ans worse every year, and I also know that Polar Bears are almost extinced because of climate chage. This concerns my future because once there is to much of something, we don't have enough for the other thing so we all die. One thing i might do for on Earth hour is turn off everything that runs on energy, close the curtains and the doors, and than run around the house not knowing where i'm going, even though i might hurt myself.

Anonymous said...

We are in great danger people so please turn your lights off amd be nice to the envorment. At 8:30 on Saturday so TURN OF YOUR LIGHTS!

Anonymous said...

In the world there are people who think that it is okay to pollute the Earth and the animals are in danger. If we don't stop dirtying our world the south pole will melt and flood toronto.I myself do not want to live in an over sized sea instead of toronto.Some of the things we could do to fix this is 1 participate in Earth Hour 2 recycle and 3 STOP POLLUTING.Also one good activity to do during Earth Hour is reading scary ghost stories.

Anonymous said...

Earth hour is happening in the world.Global warming is making polar bears die.This concerns me because polar bears are my favourite animal.I think we should turn this around.On saturday its gonna be a great day because I can turn off all the lights and save energy.

Anonymous said...

The earth is being affected by global warming and we need to do something about it.Global warming is when the sun come closer to earth then it's not suppose to.A while back March 8, someone started something called Day light saving time.Day light saving time is when the mojority of toronto and 2,712 other cities turn of there power for one hour to help stop glbol warming.I want to stop global warming to save the animals.I think it would be nice to maybe increse the time to half an hour more.At 8:30 when i turn of the ligts in my house to have fun we will tell stories and look outside and guess how many peoplw particapated.

Anonymous said...

I think that earth hour is important becuse we might die . The polar bears are duying becuse of the greenhouse gases and us the humans. for earth hour we should carpool to waste less energy and use LESS CARBON MONOXCIDE and we could hear gost stories or scary stories. this can concerns our future.

Anonymous said...

I think that earth hour is important because we need to have air to breath we get air from the tree's and we need the earth to live and water ,food lots and lots of food food and water are important because we eat them to live and feed thir children so they can live to.Water is important because when you drink it you can run so fast that you can win a race and come in first and be the champ and never lose a game.

Anonymous said...

earth day is coming and we are not prepared.the earth is changing because we are useing cars alot factories are burning coal like crazy. So thats why we have earth hour. So if everyone deos not want to save energy they have no choice.I am going to play in my basement.

Anonymous said...

This year thousands of people are going to paricipate in earth hour.Also they're is a gas layer that is stopping the hot air from exiting the earth.So I am going to paricipate IN EARTH HOUR!!!!

Anonymous said...

I think earth hour important becaues world will get to hot and that is BAD!!!!!!!!!.But, we can HELP:). We can turn of the lights so it will be dark!!!.

If more poeple participate we can make a NEW PLACES!!!.If you look out the window you will be happy.You might bord but, you are making a big change.

Anonymous said...

Our earth is experiencing global warming. Global warming are gases that are in our atmosphere that traps the sun rays from leaving our planet.Global warming is going to melt the polar ice caps and endanger animals.This concerns me because I am part of the problem that causes global warming. We can help stop global warming by turning off lights when we're not using them and stop driving cars so much because the smoke from the cars also goes into our atmosphere.We can also help by not littering every where and recycle.At 8:30 on Saturday, I think I'm going to take a nap, read, do some homework, or play my ds during the time we turn off our lights.