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If you are in the Philippines last Saturday, March 29, 2009, chances are you will be caught in the middle of a total blackout for an hour. You might be thinking if there is some kind of a public disturbance due to the fact that generators are not working and a deafening silence will be heard.

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Any thoughts?

See what we can do.
Not many have taken notice of this feat our nation just achieved.
Is it because we're The Philippines?
Hmmm...

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Ayo pa ang Pilipinas ingsunod pero si Al Gore wala siguro.Perting landaga kono sa iya mansion.

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Ayo pa ang Pilipinas ingsunod pero si Al Gore wala siguro.Perting landaga kono sa iya mansion.

nah! and to think he is an advocate of it.
basin pod og solar powered iyang balay? but still not an excuse, if it's true

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I have posted in my blog the real picture. While most of the Philippines are totally dark during the earth hour, however, the sad reality is that a significant part of the household have no electrical lines and no accessible road. This would eventually made them practice the traditional burning of woods for their cooking. Which means, it is still a contributor of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.


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Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" may have inspired many to participate in yesterday's "Earth Hour" by switching off their lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., but maybe the former vice president didn't get the memo.

Drew Johnson, the president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, decided to drive by Gore's mansion in Nashville at 8:48 p.m. and records that floodlights were on illuminating the driveway leading up to the main quarter.

"I pulled up to Al's house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48 p.m. – right in the middle of Earth Hour," he wrote on his blog. "I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on."

He added: "The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion. I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees."

Earth Hour was deemed a huge success by its organizers, the World Wildlife Fund. The group estimated that 1 billion worldwide took part.

From an Antarctic research base and the Great Pyramids of Egypt, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Empire State building in New York, illuminated patches of the globe went dark last night to highlight what the group believes is a man-made threat of climate change. Time zone by time zone, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries dimmed nonessential lights from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., according to organizers.

WWF called the event, which began in Australia in 2007 and grew last year to 400 cities worldwide, "the world's first-ever global vote about the future of our planet."

The United Nations' top climate official, Yvo de Boer, called the event a clear sign that the world wants negotiators seeking a climate change agreement to set an ambitious course to fight global warming.

The event was initiated with hopes of impacting talks in Bonn this week to craft a deal to control emissions of the heat-trapping gases supposedly responsible for "global warming." The talks are due to culminate in Copenhagen this December.

"Earth Hour was probably the largest public demonstration on climate change ever," de Boer told delegates from 175 nations. "Its aim was to tell every government representative to seal a deal in Copenhagen. The world's concerned citizens have given the negotiations an additional and very clear mandate."



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niapil ko ini. ako gipatay ang suga sa ako gipuy-an pero nag-tv ko. ang tv maoy naghatag ug lamdag sa akong unit.

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Do as I say not as I do. There is no real action, nor real work done,nothing real.
Here's a concept: I always turn lights off when not needed. Always have, always will. It has nothing to do with global warming. It's old fashioned common sense and frugality.


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na man daghan, kc, nga magpatuyang lang ug pasuga sa ilang mga lights bisan dili kinahanglan.

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napugos ug apil kay naputlan ug suga.  wa kabajad.... wahhhhhh.

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napugos ug apil kay naputlan ug suga.  wa kabajad.... wahhhhhh.
heheheh ay windgate true jud siguro ni although sad heheheh.Nakatawa ko ug toda

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we need more than just turning off those bulbs...

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It is cheaper to put off lights in the Philippines where there are fewer industries. heheh..  (pun intended)

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Quote from Raquel: "Ayo pa ang Pilipinas ingsunod pero si Al Gore wala siguro.Perting landaga kono sa iya mansion."

that is exactly the irony of it all, raqs... the earth hour campaign turned out to be successful in the philippines because a great majority of filipinos took part in it. but its implication is that a small and poor country like the philippines which generates very little volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which accounts for most of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) that results to climate change has to make sacrifices so that a rich and developed country like the united states can continue to exist in its usual ostentatious and extravagant ways. and to top it all, the U.S. which burns a humugous volume of fossil fuels that create all those GHGs is one of four industrialized countries that refused to sign to commit to the kyoto protocol, an international agreement which was established in the 90s to minimize GHG emissions. bottomline? kita ray giilad anang mga kanahan.

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