The Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs has de­liv­ered 25 so­lar-pow­ered lanterns to en­vi­ron­men­tal group, Earth Strong T&T (ESTT), with whom it has part­nered to ob­serve Earth Hour 2013 on March 23 at 8.30 to 9.30pm. The lanterns will be used at ESTT's can­dle­light con­cert at the Hilton pool­side on that date.

Dur­ing Earth Hour, now ob­served for the ninth year, mil­lions of peo­ple around the globe switch off their lights in their lo­cal times. A glob­al cli­mate change ini­tia­tive start­ed by the World Wildlife Fund, this event aims to cre­ate aware­ness on how in­di­vid­u­als can col­lec­tive­ly take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to­wards a sus­tain­able fu­ture through sim­ple ac­tions such as turn­ing the lights off.

This ini­tia­tive is part of the Min­istry's en­er­gy con­ser­va­tion and en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy cam­paign, which aims to em­pow­er in­di­vid­u­als to be­come di­rect­ly re­spon­si­ble for their en­er­gy us­age through sim­ple prac­tices in their every­day lives, with the un­der­ly­ing premise that small changes can make a big dif­fer­ence. This cam­paign takes the form of a me­dia cam­paign as well as a school out­reach pro­gramme.

The min­istry will al­so be pro­vid­ing sup­port to ESTT through oth­er ac­tiv­i­ties re­lat­ed to the Earth Hour ini­tia­tive.For more in­for­ma­tion on the Min­istry's ed­u­ca­tion­al en­er­gy cam­paign, go to the web­site, www.myen­er­gytt.com, join the Face­book page (MyEn­er­gyTT) and fol­low on Twit­ter.