Video - Spider-Man 2 the Most Sustainable Blockbuster Ever

This video gives you a behind the scenes glimpse at the most eco-friendly blockbuster in motion picture history.

Video - Spiderman is the 2014 Earth Hour Ambassador

Spiderman is the first superhero ambassador for Earth Hour, the global movement organised by WWF. 

Video - Earth Hour Blue Crowdfunding Tutorial

Earth Hour is a movement using the power of the crowd to protect the planet. This year Earth Hour launches Earth Hour Blue, a digital crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet.

Video - Earth Hour 2014 (2 Minutes)

For the past few years, Earth Hour has made a massive impact around the world thanks to the power of the crowd. But for 2014, they will be launching Earth Hour Blue, this is something different, bigger and bolder than before.

Video - Earth Hour 2014 (60 seconds)

For the past few years, Earth Hour has made a massive impact around the world thanks to the power of the crowd. But for 2014, they are doing something different, something bigger and bolder. This year Earth Hour is unleashing Earth Hour Blue.

Earth Hour - Cape Town is the Global Earth Hour Capital for 2014

WWF’s Earth Hour City Challenge (EHCC) has awarded Cape Town, South Africa the title Global Earth Hour Capital 2014. The city is recognized for its ambition and pioneering actions to combat climate change in its effort to bolster quality of life for its citizens. Cape Town succeeds last year’s winner Vancouver, Canada.

Cape Town stood out as a role model for the global South with a showcase of green programs and actions other cities can replicate. Cape Town also demonstrates how city strategies to reduce carbon development and battle climate change can also help tackle other development priorities such as food, energy and water security.

Earth Hour Blue - New Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing Platform

Earth Hour Blue is a new revolutionary crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform for the planet. This all-new digital platform was launched this year to capture the power of the crowd and engage people around the world beyond the lights out event. The crowdfunding section of the platform allows participants to financially support and deliver positive, tangible changes to the environment and communities all over the world. The Earth Hour Blue platform enables people to add their voice to some of the biggest environmental campaigns across the world.

Earth Hour - Past Achievements

The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney Australia on March 31, 2007. It has since grown into a global movement with hundreds of millions of people from more than 7,000 cities and towns in 154 countries across every continent switching off their lights for Earth Hour. As of 2013, Earth Hour had a digital reach of 345 million. Earth Hour is a simple idea that turned into a global phenomenon, with hundreds of millions of people coming together to display a commitment to protect the one thing that unites us all - our planet.

Earth Hour 2014 - Focus on Business

Every year, hundreds of thousands of businesses, governments and organizations come together to call for action.  It is a call to take responsibility for our environmental impact and join a growing international community who are committed to leading global environmental change.

The first Earth Hour event was on March 31, 2007. On that day WWF-Australia inspired people in Sydney to show their support for climate change action. They succeeded in convincing more than 2.2 million individuals and 2,000 businesses to turn out their lights out for one hour in the first Earth Hour event.

Earth Hour - An Introduction for the Uninitiated

Earth Hour is a worldwide grassroots movement uniting people to protect the planet. Organized by WWF, Earth Hour is a global call to action that engages a massive mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues.. This annual event is celebrated by hundreds of millions of people around the world making it the largest environmental action in history. In 2014 the event takes place on Saturday March 29th. At 8.30 pm in your local time zone. At that time people across the globe will switch off the lights of their homes and businesses for one hour.

Video - Saving Energy with Efficient Lighting

The End of Incandescent Light Bulbs and the Dawn of Lighting Efficiency Mandates

The era of the incandescent light bulb is coming to an end. The governments of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and South Korea introduced measures to phase out most incandescent light bulbs. The measures came into effect on January 1, 2014. These countries joined the EU, Russia, Brazil and other nations that have already banned most incandescent lights.

Phase-out regulations effectively prohibit the manufacture, importation or sale of current incandescent light bulbs for general lighting. The regulations would allow sale of future versions of incandescents if they are sufficiently energy efficient.

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Real Energy Writers' "Energy Efficient Lighting Explained: A guide for business people who aren't lighting techies:

- Educates you about your lighting technology options
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- Describes to take advantage of current lighting market conditions to cut costs and reduce your footprint.

FOCUS-EMPOWER-GROW - Solar Lighting for Africa - Hult Global Case Challenge (Video)

A basic explanation of one of the principles of the EIT's innovative solution to help Sunny money sell 1,000,000 solar lamps by 2013 and help eradicate the use of kerosene lamps by 2020.
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Green School Buildings: The Many Benefits of Natural Lighting

The use of natural light in green schools benefits students, teachers and administrators. By reducing energy requirements, natural light also offers an environmentally friendly means of bettering the bottom line.

The sun provides higher light levels than traditional lighting while reducing energy costs. Natural light affords excellent illumination of educational materials and this appears to improve test scores. A well known school-building study, completed by the Heschong Mahone Group, identifies test scores 7-26 percent higher for schoolchildren in classrooms with plentiful natural light than for those in classrooms with little or no daylight.

A study from Alberta Education, titled A Study into the Effects of Light on Children of Elementary School Age indicates that natural light does have a positive effect on health and on rates of achievement. Children in classrooms with a natural spectrum of light including trace amounts of UV radiation had 1.75 fewer cavities than children in schools with traditional lighting. Children exposed to high pressure sodium vapor lighting were absent 3.2 days per year more than students in classrooms with full spectrum light.

The Alberta Education study also linked scholastic achievement to natural lighting. Students exposed to high-pressure sodium vapor lighting demonstrated the poorest rate of academic achievement.

A Sacramento California study titled, Light Helps Pupils Learn, is one of the largest ever done on natural light in schools and it suggests children learn faster and do better on standardized tests in classrooms with more daylight. Learning rates were 26 percent higher in reading and 20 percent higher in math in rooms with more daylight.

Windows let in light and when opened they provide natural ventilation. Windows also provide visual access to the outdoors, from morning to night and season to season, this is important to our circadian rhythms and our sleep cycles.

Ideally natural light in a green school lets in light without glare, while preventing overheating and excessive UVs.

Cost efficiency, energy reductions, improved scholastic performance and health benefits make natural lighting a logical choice.

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