Closing Down for Earth Hour

Natalie Imbruglia supports Earth Hour If you look at the top of this blog, you’ll see a special toolbar. It’s to show I support Earth Hour, which happens this year on March 28th between 8.30pm and 9.30pm.

Earth Hour is an energy-saving initiative to combat the greenhouse effect and protect our environment.

You can find out more at the Earth Hour website.

The message bar at the top of this blog is via a plug-in from the good folk over at Brave New Code. When 8.30pm arrives on March 28th, it will disable my blog for an hour and display a special Earth Hour message instead.

The environment affects us all, and if all it takes to spread the message about Earth Hour is 60 minutes of a blog’s real estate, that’s got to be worth it, no?

If you’re running a self-hosted WordPress blog and want to show your support, you can download the plug-in here.

Update Monday March 23. If you run a Drupal-powered site, you can download a module here, thanks to Open Concept.

photo credit: Earth Hour Global

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Wade Jackman

I can get behind that. Don't suppose there is a plugin for Joomla? I'm sure I can come up with something.

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NatureAdvice

Thanks for promoting Earth Hour! Another way you can recruit people to the cause is by creating a Earth Hour group on Commit21.com. Simply create a group about one action that you will commit to do for Earth Hour and recruit your friends, family, and co-workers to get involved in that action as well. When it comes to climate change, simple actions can make huge differences and Commit21 leverages social media to influence networks of friends, family, and co-workers. Check it out at www.commit21.com

globalprmaven

I can stand behind this concept and support it. Passing along...

Michael Schechter

Nice initiative... thanks for putting this on my radar!

Danny

Hi Wade,

At the minute it looks like it's just for Wordpress. Let me know if you come up with a Joomla version, I'll be sure to update the post.

Nice initiative... thanks for putting this on my radar!
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Ari Herzog

I've blogged about Earth Hour for two years in a row now; you can search my archives. Hadn't known of the plugin; thanks!

Matthew

I'm in, Danny.

Julie the handbag queen

I will support the earth hour. 1 hour of no electricity to show how much I care for our mother earth. I'm spreading the word as well so that everyone will participate.

I can stand behind this concept and support it. Passing along...
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Danny Brown

The environment affects us all, and if all it takes to spread the message about Earth Hour is 60 minutes of a blogu00e2u0080u0099s real estate, thatu00e2u0080u0099s got to be worth it, no?
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