{"id":2728,"date":"2013-03-20T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2013-03-20T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:49:56","slug":"earth-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/20\/earth-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Why wait for Earth Hour? We can take steps to protect the planet today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Earth-Hour-2013.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2729\" title=\"Earth Hour 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Earth-Hour-2013.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Earth-Hour-2013.png 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Earth-Hour-2013-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 8.30pm on Saturday March 23, 2012 York Region residents will turn out their lights to pay homage to Earth Hour. This symbolic event unites millions of people around the world who are collectively working together to ensure our planet prospers for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Since Earth Hour was adopted by Canada in 2008, York Region residents have risen to the challenge of powering down for one hour. PowerStream, the local distribution company that services much of York Region reported 7.8% less electricity used in 2012 between 8:30 and 9:30pm, in comparison to a typical consumption pattern normally experienced on a similar type of day.<\/p>\n<p>In reflecting on the true meaning of Earth Hour it raises the question \u2013 why wait until March 23 at 8:30pm to make a difference in saving energy or working to reduce climate change? Why not make small changes throughout the year? Small changes like carpooling or taking public transit will help reduce vehicle emissions and pollution. You can hop aboard a viva or YRT bus for the day, we would be happy to see you.<\/p>\n<p>Once vivaNext rapidway construction is complete it will improve travel times and help create great renewed destinations to live, work, shop and play in Markham, Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Newmarket.<\/p>\n<p>If we all tried, even for one day, to reduce our environmental footprint it would be a symbolic demonstration of our commitment to reducing climate change. \u00a0Don\u2019t forget to power down this Earth Hour, our planet will thank you.<\/p>\n<p>[poll id=&#8221;41&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8.30pm on Saturday March 23, 2012 York Region residents will turn out their lights to pay homage to Earth Hour. This symbolic event unites millions of people around the world who are collectively working together to ensure our planet prospers for future generations. Since Earth Hour was adopted by Canada in 2008, York Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,53,25],"tags":[26,9],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-events","category-general","category-going-green","tag-earth-hour","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}