First look at the Earth Hour 2013 Creative Artwork. We’re getting ready to take I WILL IF YOU WILL to new heights - March 23, 8:30PM.

Elderly couple during Earth Hour 2010 in Lima, Peru © Miguel Bellido / WWF

Hear, hear.

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The Vote Earth campaign artwork was created by Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the iconic imagery for Barack Obama in the last US Presidential Election. Vote Earth was the world’s first global election, an election between earth and global warming. The target was one billion votes for earth, because our planet is worth saving.

Earth Hour’s Vote Earth launches The People’s Orb, a shimmering silver sphere encasing a 350 gigabyte hard drive with video, images and documents representing the hundreds of millions of people who voted Earth to call for action on climate change by switching off their lights for Earth Hour 2009. A tangible representation of the voice of the world’s people, The People’s Orb relays from Sydney to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in the care of a variety of custodians ranging from former heads of state to iconic rock stars. The People’s Orb, is entrusted to UN Chef de Cabinet, Vijay Nambiar to be presented to world leaders. The People’s Orb takes centre stage in the plenary on the final day of the conference, in front of President of the United States, Barack Obama, Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, COP President and Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard and over 100 heads of state.

The best of #yourplanet featured @earthhourofficial this week - images by @bubblehaze (Africa) @inkblue (Mexico), @ewingnugraha (Indonesia), @susi97 (Norway), @adhisara (Indonesia), @rockicide (Sweden), @vcd1080 (South Africa), @dennis_ccb (Malaysia), @rranito (China), @bodhe (Indonesia)

A nice motto for those that gave up something as part of their IWIYW challenge

Going. Going. Gone. Cut down on your paper usage, and you never know what you might save…

Photographing Star Trails From Space, At 17,000 MPH 

ISS ASTRONAUT DON PETTIT OFFERS A RARE VIEW FROM BEYOND THE HEAVENS.

These AMAZING photos offer us a glimpse of Earth from the International Space Station. As the ISS circles Earth at roughly 17,000 miles per hour, Flight Engineer Don Pettit takes 30-second exposures with a stock digital camera, then stacks those exposures into single frames that capture 10-15 minutes on the ISS. The rotation is fast enough for long exposures to blur the earth into gilded landing strip beneath a steady rain of stars—a scene I would have never imagined as beautiful before today.

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A satellite image of a phytoplankton bloom stretching across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe’s most northern point, Cape Nordkinn. Free-floating phytoplankton highlight the whirls of ocean currents in spectacular shades of blue and green. These microscopic marine organisms that drift on or near the surface of oceans and seas have been called ‘the grass of the sea’ beca…use they are the foundation of the oceanic food chain. Phytoplankton are able to convert inorganic compounds such as water, nitrogen and carbon into complex organic materials. With their ability to ‘digest’ these compounds, they are credited with removing as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as their plant ‘cousins’ on land - therefore having a profound influence on climate. They are also sensitive to environmental changes, so it is important to monitor and model phytoplankton into calculations of future climate change. This image was released as part of WWF’s 2012 Living Planet Report © ESA

A satellite image of the Canary Islands with unique cloud formations, created by ‘Von Karman vortices’, off the coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean. These vortices, named after aeronautical engineer Theodore von Karman, form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to separate and create eddies in its wake. The clockwise and counter-clockwise spirals in this image were created as wind blowing from the north over the Atlantic was disturbed by the archipelago. The islands are (left to right): El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. © ESA