After you’ve spent the day expending energy with your clients and participants on Saturday 29 March, head home and start saving some.

To raise awareness of the climate change issue and send a powerful message that it’s possible for individuals to take action and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, WWF-Australia has again planned Earth Hour to take place between 8 and 9pm.

Many cities around the globe are participating in Earth Hour 2008 including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Chicago, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Copenhagen, Christchurch, Manila and Suva. It’s a global event and everyone can join in.

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2,100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2 per cent for one hour, the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for an hour.

Earth Hour 2008, with its international contingent, hopes to spread the message that reducing the world’s emissions is a shared global responsibility. WWF-Australia is inviting towns, cities and communities around the world to sign on.

Earth Hour is about taking simple steps everyday that collectively reduce carbon emissions – from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.

To find out more about Earth Hour, visit the official website www.earthhour.org and sign up.