Earth Hour 2010

Hey everyone!

EnviroG4 would like to thank all those who took initiative and participated in 2010's Earth Hour!!!

Here are some fun facts about earth hour:

• It started in 2007
• It's celebrated on the last Saturday of March
  
• 121 countries took part this year
  
• This year the A.C.C. turned of there exterior lights during the Leafs vs the Rangers game

For more information please visit http://earthhourcanada.org/earthhour/

David Suzuki Powerwise Commercial

Here is our featured commercial of this week.

(please keep in mind this video is a product of power wise and the David Suzuki Foundation)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDi6R2a-r0c&feature=related

More commercials and information can be found at www.davidsuzuki.org

ELECTRICITY

Hey I'm back and this week our topic is on electricity!

Over the course of this week I went around school interviewing people about the different ads they have seen. Not to my surprise many people mention David Suzuki and his Power Wise ads. Many of the people I interviews enjoyed these commercials due to their humor and the simple fact that a celebrity was making a difference. I later asked if the commercials seen were inspiring them to want to make a change. One girl in particular, Gina, stated that these commercials have made her think about the energy that her and her family consume and the amount of that energy they have wasted. I went further with this and asked the students if they felt other people were getting the message as well. One guy, Jamie, felt that people were getting the message but feels there needs to me more awareness for the younger generations. I asked him to elaborate and he moved further to state that the younger generations will at some point have to face the repercussions of their wastefulness. Young people should be conserving in order to ensure a better life for themselves and for their children.
When asking how these commercials could be more affective and acknowledged many people suggested that more celebrities should be involved in bringing awareness because it feels as though someone familiar is inspiring them to get the message.
Earth hour is this weekend, March 27th at 8pm, I asked the students if they would be participating in this activity. Many of them said yes because its something fun, efficient, and they enjoy the fact that its something to celebrate.

I hope that everyone will be joining in the power save during earth hour and I will be presenting a brief post of my experience on March 27th!

Hope you all enjoyed today's post

Thank you
EnviroG4

WELCOME

Hi Everyone!

We are a group of 4 Students from Toronto, Ontario studying the environment.
Our goal is to discover if people are aware of the ads that are being presented to us today about the environment and if they are really helping people to be aware of what is truly going on out there.
We will manly be focusing on television ads.

Every week we will have a featuring topic such as pollution or electricity and through our studies at Humber College we will interview fellow peers to find out their opinions on the ads. At the end of each week a video regarding our featured topic will be posted to inspire people as well as during each week we will presenting posts based on the information we have collected from our peers.


We hope this blog will also inspire you, the reader, to want to make a difference and to truly understand the things that are going on today in order to protect our future for generations to come.

Thank you

EnviroG4
The World Is In Your Hands