Sentences with phrase «about earth hour»

I notice that there is no mention at all about Earth Hour on the American IKEA website.

Warren first wrote about Earth Hour in late 2006, describing the idea of saving energy and increasing awareness by turning out the lights for one hour, starting in 2007.

One of the big myths about Earth Hour is that it doesn't actually make any difference, that the generators are running anyways.

Learn more about Earth Hour in the USA here.

Not exact matches

Eventually, Virgin hopes to send tourists on two - hour flights that provide views of Earth previously only seen by astronauts, plus about four minutes of weightlessness.

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft's doom: Tiangong - 1 should reenter Earth's atmosphere on April 1 at 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.

And there is this: According to Luke 23:44 - 45, there occurred «about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.»

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

I'm not sure what would happen if the sun stopped rotating but if the Earth's rotation stopped in order make the sun appear to stop in the sky, or delay «going down about a full day,» then the momentum of everything not solidly attached to the earth would carry it eastward at nearly 1000 miles per hour, e.g. people, animals, many buildings, cars, all open water, Earth's rotation stopped in order make the sun appear to stop in the sky, or delay «going down about a full day,» then the momentum of everything not solidly attached to the earth would carry it eastward at nearly 1000 miles per hour, e.g. people, animals, many buildings, cars, all open water, earth would carry it eastward at nearly 1000 miles per hour, e.g. people, animals, many buildings, cars, all open water, etc..

Here is some more: According to Luke 23:44 - 45, there occurred «about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour, and the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.»

Tomorrow night, you can participate in Earth Hour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an houHour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an hourhour...

I rarely go to Church and im catholic / christian... you got ta havbe that personal relationship with Jesus and read your Bible and u be fine... And for this mr Evans fellow, If he really was about God he would know that God only knows the day and hour that the world will end and Jesus» return to earth.

Uhh 24 hour days didn't exist before the earth did, 7 days??????? what about the gabiilion of other things in universe, did god just snap his fingers for them?

Got to know about boy yesterday as he had few hours to spend in mother earth.??

And yes every man women and child on planet earth knew Wenger was in Rome today, and about 10 hours ago at that.

They're my connection to reality, my foot in the earth, a reminder that my life isn't just about the awesome thing my kid did or the small number of hours I've slept or how mind - numbingly difficult potty training is.

You can read all the books in the world about pregnancy, birth and how to cope with a newborn baby, but when that baby does not sleep for more than 2 hours at a time for 3 years... yes not once... how on earth do you prepare for that?

Thanks to everybody who helped spread the word about Online Politics 101 — in its first 48 hours on Earth, it was been downloaded more than 2000 times and had scored a good dozen blog hits and at least two stumbles (whatever those are).

The candidates learn about products such as Google Earth, a satellite imaging program; get an introduction to what's referred to as the company's Googley culture; and discuss a wide range of topics (atheism, Russian relations, Internet access in Africa) in hour - long sessions that can seem a long way from Iowa and New Hampshire.

Steven Cohen, the executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, estimates waste - to - energy could provide about 10 percent of the city's needed megawatt hours.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Researchers had previously suggested that a substantial fraction of the tenuous shroud, which has a surface pressure about one - billionth that of Earth's atmosphere at sea level, turns to frost for the 2 hours that Io lies in Jupiter's shadow.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

One way that awareness about the importance of energy conservation is being promoted around the world is through «Earth Hour,» which began in 2007 when two million individuals and 2,000 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned their lights off for one hour to make a statement about the need to fight climate chaHour,» which began in 2007 when two million individuals and 2,000 businesses in Sydney, Australia turned their lights off for one hour to make a statement about the need to fight climate chahour to make a statement about the need to fight climate change.

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

About 18 hours later, an intense magnetic storm hit Earth.

A metallic sponge inside the core will help protect the cargo when it slams into Earth at about 200 miles per hour.

Using data gathered by an infrared camera during a survey of such stars, astronomers have found that the brightness of a brown dwarf — dubbed 2MASS 2139, which lies about 47 light - years from Earth — varied as much as 30 % in less than 8 hours.

The signal of an Earth analogue is a drop in a star's luminosity of about 85 parts per million, lasting several hours, whenever such a planet passes in front of its parent star.

Circadian clocks, which reset about every 24 hours, are common in organisms living on Earth's surface.

«We also hope that the Administration will regard Earth Hour as a way to inform and engage the public on climate change, just as the federal government has traditionally used Earth Day to educate the public about general environmental issues.»

The first image in the upper left was taken about 9.5 hours before closest approach, when Rosetta was still 510,000 km (315,000 miles) from the asteroid - more distant than the Moon is from the Earth!

(A sol is a Martian day, equal to about 24.6 Earth hours.)

Iridium's satellites (pdf) operate in near - circular low Earth orbits (LEO) about 780 kilometers above the surface, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour and circling the planet in about 100 minutes.

Over the ensuing hours, Stardust transmitted its data back to Earth, including an image taken from about 500 kilometers away.

Earth's center Age: About 4.5 billion years Diameter: 1,510 miles Rotation rate: Once every 23.89 hours — or 0.2 percent faster than Earth.

Those inefficiencies meant that it cost $ 64,000 for the space shuttle to put one kilogram into low - earth orbit (LEO); an elevator, Laubscher calculates, could do it with 17.2 kilowatt - hours of electricity — about two dollars» worth.

Since the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, low Earth orbit has become a junkyard, with about 110,000 hunks of old spacecraft one half inch or larger hurtling at speeds as high as 30,000 miles per hour.

The simulated storm cloud dropped about 10 centimetres of snow per hour, comparable to extreme snowstorms on Earth (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010je003783).

Cassini was programmed to collect science data while close to the planet and turn toward Earth to make contact about 20 hours after the crossing.

A network of seismometers around the volcano indicated that the ground started shaking about an hour after the Sumatran quake — due to surface waves traveling along Earth's crust.

Rather, they will document the storms as they pass by, providing researchers with detailed information about the storm's intensity and properties in the 15 minutes to an hour before it reaches Earth.

DK: «The earth's transit takes about 10 hours, and it does that once every 365 days.

Landing will occur about four hours later, with confirmation on Earth at around 17:30 UTC (9:30 a.m. PST; 6:30 p.m. CET).

At it closest point to Earth, TESS will send that data back to scientists on Earth, a process that will take about 9 hours each time.

It takes about 4 1/2 hours for a signal to reach Earth from New Horizons.

During its transit, «55 Cancri e» crosses the star and blocks a small fraction of its starlight, dimming the star by 0.05 percent for nearly two hours, helping scientists determine that the planet is about twice the size of Earth, or 16,000 miles in diameter.

Voyager 1 is currently over 7 billion miles (about 11 billion kilometers) away from Earth and is still transmitting — it takes about 10 hours for the signal to travel from the spacecraft to Earth!

Because Pluto is about 3 billion miles (4.8 billion km) from Earth, it takes New Horizons 4.5 hours to send images and data home to the science team.

To maintain Mercury's tight inner orbit around the Sun, the planet must move much faster than Earth needs to in its more distant Solar orbit so that a spacecraft must gain about 65,000 miles per hour (105,000 km per hour) to «catch» it.