Friday, 28 March 2008

Earth Hour


Global warming is an often mentioned term nowadays. It means the increase of the average temperature of the Earth due to the greenhouse gas concentrations. Some scientists and people deny the being of the global warming even though we can feel its devastating effects all over the world. Our weather changes every day and we have to bear this exaggerated climate. One day we feel the pleasant zephyr of spring, the other day the it's snowing like in winter. Almost 43 degree in June, or -20 degree in January was unimaginable a few years ago. It's a question whether humans are responsible for global warming.
Unfortunately, we can't turn back the process but decelerate it.

Earth hour is an international event which asks households to turn off their lights for one hour on 29 March at 8 pm. It may help to promote electricity conservation and lower carbon emissions. Earth Hour 2007 was a symbolic event in Sydney but this year several country and city decided to make it happen in their countries and cities. Earth Hour 2007 brought together families, schools, restaurants, stars. 2,100 corporation and 2,2 million people joined to this symbolic event.
Please join to those people who turn off the lights and help to save our planet. It's just a little thing but maybe it's the beginning to stop global warming.

Saturday, 8 March 2008

via...

A familiar name from a distance, a jolly voice, a smiling face. I know her. She's my cousin,Anita. And she's in Turkey now because she's an Erasmus student in Ankara.
But I can see her, I can hear her voice and I can be in touch with her. All these things are possible via the Internet.

I just click one and suddenly I'm able to know everything about her. I can feel her sensations, her thoughts, we can laugh together, we can feel each other's sorrows and joys. It's amazing.

Internet is one of the most useful inventions in the world. It connects people who are in different parts of the Earth, it enables us to get information about everything we want, it makes our lives much more comfortable.
Some people say it has harmful effects. But think it over for a minute! Everything can have a harmful consequence, even the best things of the world. The problem is not with the Internet itself, but the people who use it. Because we tend to overuse things we like, and this is what happens with the Internet. So we should pay more attention to the real world around us.

Anyway, I love the Internet and I don't want to get rid of it.