Join the global movement with Timex INDIGLO® and Earth Hour. Pledge to act on March 28th at 8:30 pm and for every shared pledge, Timex donated $1 to Earth Hour but Timex is not the only business partnering with Earth Hour (scroll down for a list of partners). Hundreds of businesses around the world are also getting on-board. There are some good reasons why businesses are working with Earth Hour to help protect the planet. Partners that help to promote Earth Hour, broaden the reach of the campaign as well expand people’s access to their brands and their sustainability story. Brands are partnering with this grassroots event because it is a great opportunity to showcase a company’s commitments to environmental impact. This reinforces relationships with existing clients and attracts new clients.
Those that register pledge to turn off the lights at their place of business (both internal and external). However, there is far more that they can do. In addition to promoting awareness and reducing energy usage, businesses can identify areas where their business can minimize environmental impact and their reduce carbon emissions.
Earth Hour offers a range of resources suitable to businesses. This includes a How-To Guide to help businesses take action throughout the year. This guide includes information on how to generate maximum impact and how to tell your story and create an Earth Hour narrative for your brand. The guide also includes sample letters for employees, customers, supply chains, and governments.
Here are nine examples of Earth Hour partnerships with business:
TIMEX
It’s #TimetoGLO. Timex is launching a global movement to support Earth Hour 2015 featuring their signature INDIGLO® technology. To join, pledge to act on March 28th at 8:30 p.m. and share your pledge to spread the word. For every shared pledge, Timex will donate $1 to Earth Hour. When you make a pledge to act on March 28th, you can upload a profile image to the site that will be transformed into glowing pixie-dust particles, representing your part in the “GLO-ing” global movement. Share your pledge on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using the hashtag #TimetoGLO to help spread awareness about Earth Hour 2015.
POCOYO
As ‘Kids Ambassadors’ for Earth Hour since 2010, Pocoyo and his friends (Elly & Pato) have helped raise the profile of the Earth Hour movement by encouraging people to support the cause and educating future generations on our planet and its environment. In 2015, the creators of Pocoyo are using their power to ‘change’ climate change by educating children on the causes and effects of climate change and supporting Earth Hour crowdfunding projects for climate action. They will also rally and inspire influential creators on Youtube to join the movement and back crowdfunding projects to help achieve tangible environmental outcomes.
ROVIO ENTERTAINMENT
Earth Hour is collaborating with Rovio Entertainment Ltd and its hugely popular Angry Birds Friends game to spread the word about how we can all, birds and Professor Pig included, take action for the planet. Rovio Entertainment Ltd, the creator of Angry Birds™, is a global industry-changing entertainment media company headquartered in Finland that creatively combines digital with physical, breaking the boundaries of traditional content delivery. What started as a casual game in 2009 became an international phenomenon within a few months of its release. Today Angry Birds is not only the most downloaded game of all time, it is a worldwide entertainment brand reaching out into publishing, licensing, animations, books and location-based entertainment. Rovio’s animated Angry Birds feature film is slated for July 2016.
TIMESCAPE
As Earth Hour’s official online event-hosting and storytelling platform, Timescape helps us track and explore all the stories, events and celebrations during Earth Hour from around the world. Timescape is an online platform for building and sharing interactive map-based stories. Organizations across the world are using Timescape for Event tracking, Social Marketing and Impact demonstration.
COTAP
As Earth Hour’s official communication partner, Cotap helps their team and thousands of volunteers around the world to coordinate landmark lights-off events and many more activities beyond the hour in 120 countries. Cotap is a simple, secure mobile messaging app for teams. There’s no need to swap phone numbers, and personal and work messages stay separate. With mobile-first simplicity and the enterprise-grade security businesses need, Cotap reaches all employees on their smartphones.
KUSAGA ATHLETIC
As Earth Hour Global’s apparel manufacturer, Kusaga Athletic created the planet-friendly Earth Hour 2015 t-shirts with their unique ECOSOFT™ fabric material. Made from sustainable crops. The ECOSOFT™ fabric passes through an advanced eco-friendly manufacturing process significantly reducing non-renewable energy usage and CO2 emissions.
GSI DIGITAL
As Earth Hour’s digital agency for their flagship digital property http://www.earthhour.org, GSI Digital has helped recreate the online user journey to be one that transforms the brand from an event to a movement. Strength in technical development, depth in integration expertise and speed in delivery by GSI Digital helps Earth Hour accelerate the digital journey to reach millions around the globe. GSI Digital has been an ever-present partner for Earth Hour Blue movement and helps transform the digital journey of users around the world.
HAPPY MARKETER
As Earth Hour’s social media partner, Happy Marketer is helping maximize the impact and reach of this movement through Social Media. With a potent combination of training, strategy and analytics, the team at Happy Marketer helps Earth Hour find the perfect messaging to spread the message and activate passionate users. Happy Marketer is a digital consulting and training firm that helps companies make the most out of their digital campaigns across search engines, social media, content and analytics. Learn more about them here.
CROWDONOMIC
Singapore based company, Crowdonomic has helped to build an amazing crowdfunding platform for the planet. They deliver technical expertise as well as support for teams around the world to help build and drive their projects further. Click here to visit Earth Hour Blue crowdfunding page powered by Crowdonomic. Crowdonomic is a Fin-Tech business offering a full portfolio of crowdfunding solutions. It is the region’s foremost crowdfunding platform where global smart capital meets the region’s most promising startups.
Related
Video – Earth Hour: Why You Need to be Part of It
Video – Earth Hour: Collective Action to Combat Climate Change
Video – Earth Hour: Watch the Lights Go Out Around the World
Video – Highlights from Earth Hour 2015
