Australian Wineries and Earth Hour – how can we take part and set an example
On Saturday night at 8.30pm Australian Eastern Summer Time, almost the whole of Australia will be switching off their lights and all unessential power for 60 minutes to participate in Earth Hour. Two years ago, Sydney was the first big City in this cult event – now spreading across the whole world.
I do remember well the reactions I got when I was in Germany in June 2007 talking to businesses there about the effects Earth Hour had on us in Australia. I tell you – no one believed me that such a big following could be achieved for such an event. Well, we all know, that it just happened and today cities from Tokyo to Dubai to Frankfurt to London to Los Angeles are part of a global move to “switch off”.
vote with your light switch & support Earth Hour
So how can the wineries be part of it: let us start with the sales and support staff, I guess it is pretty obvious that all of these will switch off all computers, lights and electronic equipment for the whole weekend. It gets a little more difficult if we think about the wine-making areas, especially when we look at the current harvesting going on. Tons of grapes get delivered to our wineries these days, they all need to be ‘processed’ instantly once in the winery, cooling systems, a lot of machinery depending on electricity are part of this early stage process once the grapes have arrived in the winery.
Still – knowing the importance of being part of a world wide movement for a more sustainable way of treating our environment, I know, that Australian wineries will ‘switch off too’. Make this a special part of the weekend, use the time to reflect, bring out the candles and be part of EARTH HOUR !
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Ich weilte vor fast genau 2 Jahren in Deutschland und erzaehlte dortigen Unternehmen und einigen Buergermeistern von dem unglaublichen Effekt, den die hiesige australische Earth Hour auf uns alle hier Down Under hatte. In Sydney begann diese Bewegung, unterstuetzt von vielen Unternehmen und Privatpersonen, die alle fuer diese eine Stunde ihre Lichter ausschalteten, saemtliche Energienachfrage vom Netz nahmen und damit die heutige weltweit gefeierte Earth Hour erstmals vollzogen. Ein betoerend einfacher und doch so effektiver Vorgang.
Wir werden in diesem Jahr erneut die Kerzen hervorholen, um uns herum wird vollkommene Dunkelheit herrschen und wir werden mit unseren Kindern Spiele spielen und Beispiel geben. Ich wuensche uns allen viel Spass dabei – schreiben Sie uns doch einfach, wie Sie Earth Hour erlebt haben.
Ihr Michael Brecht
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