Earth Hour Every Hour

What a pleasure it was to see a major change to Hong Kong's waterfront skyline!

Great that so many organisations did turn off their lights. Must say it was easier to see the difference along the waterfront than in the shopping areas of Causeway Bay.

Here are a before and during images taken from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club at Causeway Bay.


Before the lights went off.


During Earth Hour

Now the really important part is for people to make a difference of every hour of the day and year. Seems sad that you may only do something for 1 of the 8760 hours in a year!

8 hours a day
To make a difference everyday for around 8 hours you can simply make sure you turn off appliances while you sleep. How hard could it be to turn the TV and computer off at the wall each night?

For other tips head to http://www.earthhour.org.hk/eng/hkeveryday.html

Island Caretaker

Yes, the best job in the world just got better and more real!

You know how I applied for The Caretaker role on the Great Barrier Reef based at Hamilton Island in Australia. Well I did not make the shortlist of 50 people.

So for all of you who were looking forward to the chance to come and visit us, you will have to change your tickets from Hamilton Island to Lantau Island. Yes we still have our Island Caretaker role here on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.

It was great to realise that I actually already have the best job in the world and you all are part of it too. I will expand on that further though before that I would like to share with you the learning experiences I have got through applying for the job. They include:

• receiving great words of support, thanks
  
• learning more about making videos that are informative and entertaining (must have some more to do to be able to appeal to Tourism Queensland)
  
• assessing my outdoor and tour guide skills
  
• appreciating more the role we still play as Island Caretakers around the world through nature conservation projects
  
• seeing new opportunities for both Louise and I to assist eco-initiatives with our skills
  
• using video clips to promote our skills and services
  
• lastly and probably the most important is that it highlighted to me that we all are Island Caretakers, yes you probably guessed which little island I am talking about, Planet Earth.

So thanks for being an Island Caretaker with Louise and I of Planet Earth.

This 1min video clip summarises nicely for me the role of an Island Caretaker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHyH3MPgZDo



(no it is not mine though if you want to see my application for the Island Job then head to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWL8lWvtHCA&eurl=http://www.islandreefjob.com/en).


So thanks again for all your support.

Does anyone know any of the 50 shortlisted applicants?

Grow well
Dr Merrin