GREEN TEA BERN SUPPORTS EARTH HOUR

Green-Tea-Bern supports Earth Hour 2010.

Earth Hour 2010, an awareness program to cultivate the cultures and lifestyles that will contribute to climate changes.

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2010 will take place on March 27, 2010 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., local time.

Therefore, to attribute my support for Earth Hour 2010, GreenTeaWorld decided to:

1. Switch off any lights and non-essential electrical appliances (except refrigerator)
2. Will not sign into Twitter, MSN and Facebook (No internet for the period of time)
3. Will not using any vehicle (if I'm going out for dinner later)
4. Will not be updating any blog posts
5. Will not using mobile phones to text (save battery)

So, that is what I'm going to do later at 8.30pm.

What would you do?

What would you do for our mother nature?

And

What would you do for Earth Hour?

DiGi GOING DEEP GREEN

BERNAMA on 5th August has reported as such - DiGi To Reduce Carbon Emissions By 17 Per Cent. Now you may be wondering how a telecommunication company like DiGi can help the environment by reducing carbon dioxide emission into the atmosphere, but it seems possible anyway. We all know that carbon dioxide is the main gas emitted from the human activities, a main contributor to the global warming, causing climate change and temperature rising.

In Malaysia, 525 tonnes of CO2 are emitted for every 1GwH of power generated in which of all, DiGi emitted about 70,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2007.

Therefore, DiGi will invest RM100 million in its Deep Green program to reduce the CO2 emissions by 17% in the next 6 to 12 months. The program which will span over three years would see DiGi reducing its carbon emissions by half. According to Johan Dennelind, DiGi’s CEO – the information, communication and technology industry are set to surpass the aviation industry as a major contributor of carbon emissions by 2012. Deep Green is the company’s corporate program that extends beyond the community relations.

Now, go to DiGi’s Deep Green site and pledge your vow to save our mother nature. Not only by caring for our environment by reduce energy consumption or recycling our wastage, but we need to do our part for more.

Just see how DiGi does their part on it:

But what about you?

These are screen shots taken from the website - the official DiGi website for Deep Green project. Come and voice out your pledge for our mother nature!

COME LET'S VOTE FOR SIPADAN

Sipadan Island is a tropical oceanic island located on the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah, offshore of the town of Tawau. Located in the Celebes Sea (Laut Sulawesi) and right at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem.

Sipadan Island is actually a mushroom shaped atoll rising six hundred metres from the deep sea floor, with the island rises above the corals that covered above the millenia old extinct volcano cone on the seabed. Although Sipadan is recognized as one of the five best spots for diving, the designation of Marine Park status for the island since 2005 means diving activity will become scarce and a rare seen phenomenon and accommodation was dislodged from the island ever since.


However, this in line with the establishment of the need to protect the oceanic life and natural ecosystem that consists of the schools of green and hawksbill turtles nesting and mating, schools of barracuda and big-eye trevally in tornado-like formations, pelagic species such as manta rays, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and whale sharks.

Realizing the natural wonder awesomeness in this tiny rain-forest island, recently Sipadan Island was named as one of the official nominees into the selection of the New 7 wonders of Nature.

The New 7 Wonders of Nature will be an online competition that features an international worldwide voting to select for top 7 nature's iconic landmarks around the globe. Sipadan Island is one of 261 qualified contender to eyeing for the Top 77. Therefore, anyone can vote as long as you have registered your e-mail with them.

This is the official website for the Malaysian Sipadan entry into the The New 7 Wonders of Nature at www.votesipadan.com.


And this is how the selection for The New 7 wonders of Nature will be done. So far, sipadan Island ranks #5 and may stand a good chance to enter the Top 77 nominees. I hope we can reach the Final 21 as well.

This is how you can help our own Sipadan Island to gain more international recognition into The New 7 Wonders of Nature. Follow these simple steps and you will make our country proud.

ONE. Login to http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/. You will see the below notice been posted on it. Read on.

TWO. Optionally, you can search for Sipadan Island through the list of nominees given. Or you can just go to the URL link of http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/nominees/asia/c/SipadanIsland/. Click "Vote now for Sipadan Island".

THREE. You will be linked into the voting page.

FOUR. Part one of the voting - please register your e-mail and fill in the necessary particular. Remember you need a valid e-mail OK!!

FIVE. Fill in the seven nominees of your choice. The most important - Sipadan Island (Malaysia) should be placed at #1 of the voting list. The rest fill of the 6 nominees on your top 7 can be choose from anything of your choice on the list. (However, I would suggest that you do not place any of the 6 nominees comes from any of those Island category. I forgot to tell you that Sipadan Island is under Island category and there are 7 categories)

SIX. Submit your vote.

SEVEN. Go to your e-mail inbox and check for an e-mail notification by New7Wonders.

EIGHT. Click on the link given in the e-mail to validate your vote. remember to validate because if you don't, your vote is not considered.

So what are you waiting for. Vote for Sipadan Island. Vote for our proud island to enter the list of international recognition. Sipadan is truly a natural wonder island for the world. Remember, you have till 7 July 2009 for voting, but please do so soon.

Green Tea World!! supports Sipadan Island. So how about you?
Thanks for your supports!!

"This mushroom-shaped island is known amongst divers around the world for its unique seascape and exceptional beauty. A rich variety of marine life shimmers through the translucent waters surrounding this oceanic island." - http://www.wordtravels.com/

The very famous late French underwater explorer and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once remarked about Sipadan Island “I have seen other places like Sipadan… 45 years ago. Now we have found again an untouched piece of art.”