Gadget Grace

On Saturday, March 28, 2009, at 8:30 pm, COMTECH INSTITUTE will be taking part in what promises to be an amazing an inspiring event in the flight against climate change—Earth Hour, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund.

By simply turning off all non-essential lighting for one hour at our locations and facilities across Philippines/world, we will join tens of millions of concerned citizens and corporations throughout the world in calling for action to save our planet for future generations.

More than 50 million people in 370 cities around the world took part in Earth Hour 2008. The lights went out at Sydney’s Opera House, Rome’s Coliseum, the Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge. Even the Google homepage went dark for the day. Many major corporations took part including HP, Coca-Cola, and Morgan Stanley.

This year, Earth Hour promises to be even bigger. In Philippines, many cities have already pledged to participate including Zamboanga City…with more signing up daily. They will join international cities such as Beijing, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Las Angeles, London, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, and Toronto.

To get a better sense of the magnitude and inspiring nature the event, please take a moment to watch WWF’s video about Earth Hour 2009 at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWD8pbK5t8.

To help us make sure the lights actually do go out on March 28^th, we’d like to ask that all employees switch off office lights and unplug non-essential equipment before leaving the building on the Friday before Earth Hour. In addition, we’d like to encourage everyone to participate in Earth Hour by turning off their lights at home during the event.

We’ll also be asking our customers, business partners and suppliers to join us in supporting Earth Hour.

Participating in Earth Hour is easy, fun and absolutely free. For more information and to sign up for the event, visit www.earthhour.org where you’ll find fun tips for what you and your family and friends can do when the lights go out.

Energy efficiency is not only good for the bottom line, our company has long believed that we have a responsibility to operate our business in a responsible manner and in ways that don’t deplete our world’s limited natural resources.

In the weeks leading up to Earth Hour, we will take an even closer look at actions we can take throughout the organisation to operate more efficiently, waste less and reduce our environmental footprint—not only in our own businesses, but throughout our supply chain.

I invite all of you to share your ideas for ways that we can reduce our environmental footprint.

We’re excited about Earth Hour and hope you are too. Don’t forget—March 28^th at 8:30 pm, switch off.

Beyond borders. That’s exactly what I have in mind right now. This is the Team PSITE IX (others were on their way from the cottages) at an early hour for breakfast at the Dakak Beach Resort last Saturday. We bonded in one with the leadership of our ever energetic PSITE IX President Harvey Anthony Dalmacio..glad we were able to put things together beyond borders and time hahahah! The local committee slept like only two hours. Yep. We are looking forward to the second time around. Thank you everyone for supporting this event.

Breakfast memento at the Dakak Beach Resort

11th PSITE backdrop

thank you so much for supporting the 11th Philippine Society of Info Tech Educators, Inc. National Convention held at Dipolog City! thanks to Harvey and DMC Family. My congratulations to all Officers and Volunteers! We made it!