Links tagged “earthhour”
- ‘Earth Hour?!’ Celebrate Coal not Candles: ‘It was coal that produced clean electric power which cleared the smog produced by dirty combustion & open fires in big cities like London and Pittsburgh’
'It was coal that saved the forests being felled to fuel the first steam engines and produce charcoal for the first iron smelters. It was coal that powered the light bulbs and saved the whales being slaughtered for whale oil lamps. Without coal, we would be back in the dark days of candles, wood stoves, chip heaters, open fires, smoky cities, hills bare of trees and streets knee deep in horse manure'
- Flashback: Ross McKitrick: ‘I abhor Earth Hour…It celebrates ignorance, poverty & backwardness. By repudiating the greatest engine of liberation it becomes an hour devoted to anti-humanism’
- Flashback: Shock Image: It’s Always ‘Earth Hour’ in North Korea: Electricity ‘is the difference between the Dark Age and the present age’
- Energy Hour: ‘International Climate Science Coalition executive director Tom Harris explains how ICSC is turning Earth Hour into Energy Hour
- ‘When the Earth Hour ambassadors include a child, a magician, a couple of actors, a singer, a model, a chef, a radio presenter, a celebrity gardener, a priest, a hotelier, a former rock star…’
'...a green politician, an SBS landscape architect and not a single economist or scientist, I think we've long stopped listening to 'the science' and are checking out the designer label'
- The Wealthy Corporations Behind Earth Hour: ‘Earth Hour is the brainchild of two large corporate entities – the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Fairfax Media Limited’
'WWF has offices in 30 countries and employs 5,000 people. In 2010, its international operating revenues amounted to almost 3/4 of a billion dollars'
- Progress! ‘Power usage in Edmonton, Canada, actually increased by 1.01 percent during Earth Hour’
- Earth Hour: ‘As Japan And North Korea Freeze In The Dark, Greens Celebrate The North Korean Lifestyle’
- ‘We did hesitate a bit (about calling for Earth Hour in Japan) because there are many without electricity in disaster-hit areas’ ‘What did you do for Earth Hour? The (yawn) reality’
- Paper: ‘Earth Hour’ a Shining Moment for the Planet’
