When young people come in contact with nature, they learn that our lives and nature are inextricably linked. What can your college do this Earth hour to make students a part of the campaign?
Actually, there are a number of ways in which your institution can become an Earth Hour partner. Besides asking your students and teachers to Switch-off all non-essential lights from 8:30pm-9:30pm on Saturday, 25 March 2017, you can, this time around:
Create your own Event!
Create your own Event by choosing to do any of the following activities:
Host an Earth Hour Competition: Have an Earth Hour themed poster making, slogan writing or story writing contest in your college. Maybe the next Earth Hour will have a slogan, a poster inspired by one of you!
Hold upcycling/recycling workshops: Show your friends and classmates how they can easily compost their waste, segregate garbage or reuse old stuff to lead a greener life!
Make a trip to a renewable energy park: Get your friends and your teachers energized and organize a trip to a solar energy park or a wind farm. Show them how magnificent and powerful nature is!
Organize a mass tree planting activity: Plant some hope this Earth Hour by planting more trees.
Screen a film on environment: As a run-up to Earth Hour and to get everyone in the mood, get your friends together and watch a film or documentary on environment.
Drift to the Dark Side: “Ink-black darkness filled the street and fear filled my heart. As far as one could see there was coal-blackness. Neither a human face, nor a flicker of light could be seen. And then the strangest sound of ankle-bells…”. Organize a horror movie screening in a common place within your campus and cook up the scariest stories to run a chill down everyone’s spine!
Party in the Park: None of your friends or your teachers know how brilliant a party-thrower you are! And how innovative too! Who, but you, could have thought of getting all your friends and some of your teachers together and throwing a party in the campus?
Organize an Earth Hour assembly- where the environment club can spread the message of Earth Hour to all students and staff members.
Announce a mock Earth Hour- on Friday, 24 March, 2017 run a mock Earth Hour during college hours to ensure that everyone can together observe a switch off.
Least but not the last! Upload your party pictures and funny videos and let us know how you celebrated the hour this time around! Use the link here to tell us what you did so that we can tell the world.
Beyond all of this, there are some things that you can anyway do to help:
SPREAD THE WORD
Wear the Earth Hour T-shirt: Wherever you go, take the movement along with you! Get yourself and your friends some of our quirky Earth Hour merchandise here. You can also order t-shirts with your own school/college logo by writing to us and we can get them delivered to you.
Volunteer: Spread the Earth Hour message by distributing posters and banners in your locality, school/ college! Tell people that it's time now to take a stand. Download our Earth Hour kit here.
Donate your social feed: Spread awareness about Earth Hour on your social media pages to show that you stand united with us against climate change. Your voice is important! Click here to donate your social feed.
Take the inspiration further by going beyond the hour and creating a truly tangible impact!
Be the Earth Hour Super-school: : You and your friends can be the planet’s superheroes this Earth Hour. Take 5 simple actions to use your power against climate change!
Pledge to Go Solar: Adopt rooftop solar and power yourself on solar energy. Do you find asking yourself how going solar may benefit your institution? We answer this and many other questions you may have in our Why Go Solar and FAQ section!