3/10/2009 3:07:24 PM
R.AGE Earth Hour Challenge
Author: ianyee
Everybody's all hyped up for Earth Hour now, the worldwide initiative where entire cities take part by turning off electricity to create awareness about carbon emissions.
But for all our local college and university students, we wanna challenge you to not just get sucked in with the hype, and to start something on your own.
The R.AGE Earth Hour Challenge is this: we wanna get colleges/universities to turn power off for one hour, during class hours; and we want you guys to campaign for it.
You see, Earth Hour is all about creating awareness. And what better way to do that in your school, than to have your entire college declare a R.AGE Earth Hour, during class time?
It would also make a pretty profound statement that the college/university students in Malaysia are willing to have classes and lectures in the dark for the sake of the environment.
So it's up to you guys to rise to the challenge. Will you be able to persuade your college/uni authorities to do it? Will you be able to persuade your fellow students it's worth it? These are questions you'll just have to find out by giving the challenge a go.
If you wanna take part, just send us a blog post on how you plan to start your campaign. Email us at alltherage@thestar.com.my with the subject title "Earth Hour Challenge".
We'll be featuring regular updates from those taking part in our blog right here, and if some of you succeed, we'd love to feature you in our R.AGE column in StarTwo as well! But provided you guys really make a huge statement out of this...
So good luck everyone! Momma Nature needs it!
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