So it’s after Earth Hour and I’m so happy to hear and see the amount of people who did my Earth Hour Pledge and made commitments of their own. I was invited by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) be a Earth Hour 2013 Team Captian and to participate in a big event for Earth Hour in the Roncessvalles neighbourhood in Toronto.
The WWF invited me to be to their 7th team captain. At first there was only supposed to be 6 Canadian team captains but when the WWF people found my blog they thought that I had to be a team captain so I was their 7th. As a Team Captain I wrote a guest post on WWF’s blog about my passion and commitment to the environment. The WWF selected team captains to honour people who are really involved with making Earth Hour special. This means so much to me because someone really special has recognized my blog and thinks that a 10 year-old kid can make a difference.
Before the evening event we made crafty lanterns for a special walk through the neighbourhood. We walked with our candle lit lanterns and it was so fun! We did the walk to let people know about Earth Hour and it was time to turn off their light. There was also a choir walking with us from Etiobicoke School Of The Arts who sang one of my favorite songs, Don’t Stop Believing and then the lantern walk ended at the Earth Hour event stage.
WWF asked me one question on stage , she asked me “What are you doing for Earth Hour?” I told them about my stop, start and continue pledge. I met amazing people who worked at the WWF and I thanked them for choosing me to be the 7th 2013 Earth Hour Team Captain.
When me and other kids were making the lanterns I met other team captains like Karen who brought Earth Hour to Roncessvalle and other amazing people who did something really environmental and have made a difference in their community or the world.
Vancouver was crowned the winner of the Global Earth Hour Challenge between six others. Vancouver won for their actions on climate change and trying to make the world a better place. The entire world did amazing showing the rights for the environment and being together on that one night.
This year for earth hour was awesome, next year I think it will be even better. I would love to hear what you did for Earth Hour and what your planning for Earth Day on April 22nd, if you didn’t get to do the Earth Hour Pledge you can also get here.
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