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With the start of the New Year, we are busy working on making sure Earth Hour 2017 is a success.
This will be our ninth year organising Earth Hour in Bermuda, and the tenth year for Earth Hour overall – the first event having been held just in Sydney, Australia.
This year Earth Hour falls on Saturday, March 25th.
As we have for the last few Earth Hours, we plan to hold a 5k Fun Glow Walk and Run throughout the City – and to do this we need your help!
In order to hold this Walk and Run event, we need road marshals to help ensure the route throughout the City is safe for all participants.
As a road marshal you will help provide a safe course for our runners. Marshalls are positioned throughout the course, usually at intersections, and are responsible for managing traffic and directing participants along the route.
We need your help to ensure a successful Earth Hour – please let us know if you can help!
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The New Year offers us an opportunity to take stock of the last twelve months while also looking forward to the year ahead.
Here at Greenrock we have seen some changes over the last twelve months, especially with a new School Programme Manager taking over our environmental education programmes. The next twelve months should see us consolidating our environmental education programmes, including our newest programme Young Reporters for the Environment.
On a global level, the impacts of both Brexit and the election of President Trump remain uncertain for the third sector in Bermuda, and, importantly for Greenrock, for global environmental issues.
Much was said by the new President of the USA during his election campaign attacking climate science, and his subsequent appointments to environmental or science positions in his Cabinet, along with additional comments by him, have given a strong indication that he will reverse the progress made by his predecessor as regards climate change and the environment generally.
What remains unclear however is how much of an impact his policies and actions will have on the global push to execute the Paris Agreement and what impact his domestic policies will have on the USA’s own contributions to climate change.
Here at Greenrock we will continue to observe developments and take an active role locally as we continue to deliver our environmental education programmes and advocate for sustainable solutions for Bermuda.
The year ahead will no doubt be an interesting one…
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Greenrock said they were “surprised to learn about the proposal to introduce car rentals,” and said they “would support legislation – such as this proposed amendment – being subject to a more pro-active public consultation approach.”
The environmental organisations’s comments follow after the Motor Car Amendment [No. 2] Act 2016 was tabled in the House of Assembly, with the Bill seeking to amend the Motor Car Act 1951 to include provisions for a motor car rental scheme.
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Greenrock is commending the Department of Energy for holding the island’s second ever 2016 Energy Summit, saying that “it is time for Bermuda to move from aspiration to action.”
Greenrock Executive Director Jonathan Starling said, “We were happy to participate in the planning of this event as we view conversations on Bermuda’s energy future to be of critical importance for our island.
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Greenrock said they were “surprised to learn about the proposal to introduce car rentals,” and said they “would support legislation – such as this proposed amendment – being subject to a more pro-active public consultation approach.”
The environmental organisations’s comments follow after the Motor Car Amendment [No. 2] Act 2016 was tabled in the House of Assembly, with the Bill seeking to amend the Motor Car Act 1951 to include provisions for a motor car rental scheme.
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