Earth Hour Bolivia 2010
This is the new 2010 Earth Hour Logo. WWF Bolivia will be contributing information soon on how you can participate, plan an event, and make this the most successful Earth Hour yet! Below you can read about Earth Hour in 2008 and 2009 in Bolivia. There's a crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen coming up in December. You should know what our Earth is up against so you can gain a better understanding of why your participation is so necessary now.
Earth Hour Bolivia 2009
Please participate in EARTH HOUR Bolivia or in your country on March 28 '09 in your community. The WWF in Santa Cruz is leading the effort in Bolivia. Click here to tell us what your city has planned for
Earth Hour 2009
or what you plan to do individually. You can read about what the WWF has planned for this year, add your own comments, or read what others have to say. Read below to see how Earth Hour started in Bolivia:
Earth Hour Bolivia 2008Earth Hour Bolivia. I am so proud to say that in 2008 Santa Cruz, Bolivia became the FIRST CITY IN LATIN AMERICA to join the Earth Hour initiative, according to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF) which organizes Earth Hour globally.
This day was first proposed and inaugurated in 2007 by the World Wildlife Federation in Sidney, Australia. Here in Santa Cruz, Bolivia for one hour homes and businesses voluntarily turned off their lights between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. on March 29, 2008 as a worldwide gesture to show how much energy can be saved and how we call all participate in reducing the effects of global warming. In 2007 over 2,100 businesses and many homes in Sidney (over 2.2 million citizens in all) voluntarily shut off their lights and electronic equipment. In just one hour, the city saved 10% of its normal energy consumption, much more than anticipated, and an amount equivalent to taking 48,000 cars off the streets. This year, the WWF anticipated over 30 million (and hoped over 100 million) people around the globe would participate in this event to create awareness about excessive energy consumption, its contribution to global warming, and its negative effects on the environment! The municipal government, CRE (local electric company) and WWF in Santa Cruz, Bolivia called on all inhabitants to actively participate in Earth Hour Bolivia. Santa Cruz, located in the Eastern tropics of Bolivia, used this occasion to reaffirm its leadership as an advocate for rainforest conservation and forest management throughout South America. Santa Cruz is proud of the fact that it frequently participates in campaigns to raise awareness concerning energy consumption and the environment. I was happy to see the lights of the San Lorenzo Cathedral and our central plaza (Plaza 24 de Septiembre) fade to black at exactly 8 p.m. (which is an amazing event in itself because Bolivians are always late for everything!) The central plaza and cathedral are usually ablaze with enough floodlights to power a small town for a week, as you'll see if you visit my Santa Cruz central plaza page. At our home we had a great candlelight dinner as we looked out over the city to see who would turn off their lights. To ensure the safety of our citizens, street lights, traffic lights, and lights in hospitals, fire stations and police stations remained on during this time. After a long explanation of what Earth Hour is and why we were taking part in it, my four-year old was kind of mad to see any lights on at all. But of course, since Bolivians NEVER miss an occasion to party somebody actually lit fireworks far across the city, and he was quite happy the sky wasn't pitch black after all. However, let's not forget that we aren't really doing this for our own enjoyment, but to help make people all over the globe aware of the massive amounts of energy we use and waste and how this is negatively affecting our planet and our future. One hour a year is insignificant in terms of how much energy we will actually save, but incredibly significant in terms of creating awareness about the issue. Good job, Santa Cruz, Bolivia for doing your small, but very significant, leading part!!! Now let's make Earth Hour Bolivia a really truly national event!!!
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