I was contacted by the WWF today regarding the Earth Hour Awards.  I might have mentioned that I was approached to be a prelim judge for the awards, which I accepted, but it looks like nominations and applications are at a manageable level for the WWF team.

Here is an extract of the email, which was lovely and with a welcome surprise in it.  Thanks Kate for the correspondence.

“Dear Gavin,

We wanted to say a big thank you for your support of Earth Hour and helping spread the word through your blog. We also wanted to say thank you for generously offering your time to be a preliminary judge for the inaugural WWF Earth Hour Awards.”

“Instead of being a preliminary judge, we would very much like to encourage you to apply for an award yourself, specifically the Education Award. The Awards now close at midnight this Sunday 6 March.”

So, as I mentioned in a previous post, if you think I or others would make a worthy recipient, then pop on over to the Earth Hour Awards link and nominate me or anyone else in your community that you believe has gone ‘Beyond Earth Hour’. 

Nominations and applications close at midnight, Sunday, March 6th, 2011.  Go for it.  There are so many people in our great country that deserve a nomination!

Today I was convinced by my fellow blogger and friend, JulieG of Go Greener Australia, to apply for the Future Makers Award for this years inaugural WWF Earth Hour Awards.  Nominations close tonight at midnight.

This is what she had to say;

Hi Gavin

Earth Hour is just around the corner and this year WWF have some really
exciting initiatives in place. The first one is the introduction of the
inaugural WWF Earth Hour Awards – they are looking for inspiring
Australians who take great action for our planet! The call for
entries is on now, closing February 25th.

I think you should apply! But to complete the process you need to
follow this link http://earthhour.org.au/wwf-earth-hour-awards/
and complete the application form. It’s really easy and by doing so
you’ll be inspiring so many others to care more for the Earth.

WHY? Here’s my personal message to you:

Hi Gavin,
I’ve been doing some writing for Earth Hour and realised that if you haven’t put your hand up for the Future Makers award already, you really should! It’d be great if you won, and even if you didn’t it’d be a great story to tell for your blog 🙂

cheers,
Julie G

 Well, apart from being very flattered that anyone took the time to nominate me, I thought that it would be another avenue for spreading the word and benefits of sustainable living and lowering your personal environmental footprint.  This goes beyond Earth Hour, which is exactly what this years campaign is aimed at.

So if you choose to visit the link, and if you happen to click on the Future Makers Award nominate button, and suggest some silly old bloke who writes a blog about greening his lifestyle with the name of Gavin, it would probably be a good thing for the movement as a whole.  What do you think?  I don’t want to overstep my place or insult you good readers. 

This post may sound very vain, but it is not meant to and sorry if it does come across that way.  I am just trying to get the message out there to the Australian public in the most modest way I can.

Gav x

On March 26th this year, go beyond Earth Hour by thinking of other actions you can take.

I did, and look what happened to me!  Just take the next step.  Honestly, it is not that hard.