Make every hour Earth Hour!

Thanks for turning out your lights for Earth Hour and becoming part of the climate change solution! Once the lights came back on after Earth Hour, the message from participants around the world was heard loud and clear: Earth Hour needs to be the beginning of lasting change. Earth Hour should serve as the inspiration that people need to take action against climate change each and every day.

Your first challenge after Earth Hour - wash your clothes in cold water!

You can help fight climate change simply by changing the dial on your washing machine to wash your clothes in cold water. It'll get them just as clean, and will save a lot of energy and carbon emissions.

So far, 8,847 people have committed to washing their clothes in cold water in The Good Life, WWF-Canada's online community for concerned Canadians like you who want reduce their impact on our planet. Be the next one to take this action in The Good Life so we, as a community, can send a strong message that Canadians are ready for change.

Why wash in cold water?

Almost 90 per cent of the energy used to wash clothes goes into heating the water. You can save as much as $100 a year by changing to cold wash and rinse, and about 130 kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions. If every household in Canada switched to cold in their washing machines, about 1.5 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions would be saved. That is the equivalent to taking 250,000 cars off the road for one year!

What do I do?
• Adjust the settings on your washing machine to wash your clothes in cold water.
• Sign up at The Good Life and make your action count.
• Remember to always save on water by running only full loads in your machine.


More about The Good Life

To help support your continued efforts to lighten your ecological footprint, WWF-Canada created The Good Life. Joining The Good Life does not mean changing everything you do all at once: it is about taking small, steady steps, at your own pace, in the right direction. As with Earth Hour, these actions multiplied across the country will send a resounding message to our government that Canadians are ready for change.

To date, participants in The Good Life have collectively prevented more than 60 million kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the environment - the equivalent of over 4 million CFL bulbs being turned off for one year!

For more information, and to start living The Good Life today, visit wwf.ca.