Earth Hour Anyone?

Timothy writes: The Co-operative is known as a leader in greening its business. You can find out what The Co-operative Group is doing on its environment pages.

As each store is refurbished, it gets greener with newer refrigeration that is less polluting.

The Co-operative Insurance Tower at Manchester is clad in PV cells (photo Voltaic) the panels that convert the sun rays into usable electricity.

The Co-operative Insurance Tower GREEN FACTS

• Generates total electricity for 61 average three-bed houses each year
• Generates enough electricity each year to light an average three-bed house for over 305 years
  
• Generates enough electricity to make 6.8 million pieces of toast/9.9 million cups of tea every year

Which brings me nicely on to 'Earth Hour' - will you be voting Earth? 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.