60 minutes to save the Earth

Source: Gulfnews

This year's Earth Hour is from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 31 and the best way to stand up and be counted as a saviour of the planet is to challenge yourself, says Shiva Kumar Thekkepat 

There are no plastic bottles or beakers in the office of the Emirates Wildlife Society - World Wildlife Fund in Al Barsha, Dubai. Water is in glass bottles and served in glass tumblers.

Ida Tillisch, acting director general, EWS-WWF, obviously believes in leading by example. "My own commitment to last year's Earth Hour campaign was to stop using plastic bottles and I am happy to tell you that neither do I buy plastic bottles nor do I use plastic cups to drink water from any more," she says. "It's a small thing, but like a lot of other people who we worked with last year, we kept our word."

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