VOTE FOR THE EARTH – Switch off your lights for an hour!

THIS IS THE WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL ELECTION, BETWEEN EARTH AND GLOBAL WARMING.
With the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote, Vote Earth is a global call to action for every individual, every business and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet.
On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour.Or you can vote global warming by leaving your lights on. The results of the election are being presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. We want one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming.As I type this post, Sydney becomes the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. From the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the London Eye to the Las Vegas strip, nearly 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries planned to join in the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event, a time zone-by-time zone plan to dim nonessential lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. (By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer )

My clicking these photographs started with this particular bug. We were setting off one morning when my son spotted it & asked me to take a picture. I couldn’t as we were already running late, but I knew I had seen it on my Curry tree in our yard because it slept there at night.

So I got my camera one morning and went in search of the stunning creature, only to find much more activity than I could imagine. This is a post with photographs I took in the span of an hour around the Curry tree in our yard. It was quite the most fascinating time I’ve had, & I was amazed to see the kind of diversity that could share one platform. There were insects of all sorts enjoying the Spring blossoms on our tree – bees, butterflies, wasps, bugs, flies & ants too. Complete unity in diversity, & with so much colour. The tree in itself is a boon. It gives us fresh curry leaves all year around, & is a nesting ground for doves & nightingales, and sometimes the sun bird. These days it’s the pretty Spring blossoms that keep me enthralled, & the winged creatures seem like a bonanza.

Vote for the Earth, switch off your lights, or our future generations might not be able to experience such simple beautiful pleasures!

Posted by Deeba @ PAB

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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.

17 thoughts on “VOTE FOR THE EARTH – Switch off your lights for an hour!”

  1. Hi Deeba,

    Im a regular visitor at your blog,though this is the first time im leaving a comment.Actually cudn’t stop doing so,seeing such wonderful pictures.You are so talented..cooking,baking,decorating,photography,the list seems to be endless!!Ur outstanding..keep it up!!By the way,which camera do you use??

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  2. We will definitely be eating by candlelight at 8:30 this evening. We have voted for the Earth where we will continue to see beautiful creatures like those you have photographed Deeba:D

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  4. Hi Deeba

    I did vote for the earth hour & also switched the lights but only for 1/2 hour. I have tried to pass on the message to all my friends……in mysore there is very little awareness abt this,my neighbours taught it was very weird of me dng this.Only after reading ur post did i came to know abt this. & ur photos are always superb.

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  5. Deeba such gorgeous photo’s! We too are voting earth with lights out tonight.. I love your tribute! 🙂

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  7. thanks for the reminder Deeba,
    your have a complete talent, gorgous photos, makes me wants to be a child again and go play with them.
    beautiful work Deeba!

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  9. Beautiful pics Deeba. We just finished Earth hour. Had fun with the kids snuggling in bed by candle light and telling stories!

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  10. Loved the pics 🙂

    I did switch off all the lights. A and I sat eating cake 😀 we baked earlier in the day and getting all romantic 😉

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  11. Was planning to read under the candlelight, but ended up going out with some friends. but hey, we did use minimal lights where we went, and my house lighst and appliances are definitely turned off, so technically I was participating in earth hour too.
    It’s such a great cause.

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  12. Beautiful photos! You’re lucky to have so many lovely insects in your garden. I hope we’ll all be enjoying these kinds of natural beauties into the future.

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  13. loved this post, and your noble persuasion to save the earth to the online community! do you know we had this event going on all the way over to Singapore?

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  14. A beautiful post, Deeba. Thank you for all of the wonder that we have been granted.

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  16. I love the photography here and all the recipes seem really yummy. There’s so many choices to try and so little time but I’ll have to settle on one of your recipes for sure.

    Sebastian

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