“Dial-A-Desi is Canberra’s only designated driver hire service, where we drive you and your car home anywhere, anytime. How it works is easy: If you drive out to a party, club or anywhere that serves alcohol and have consumed more than the legal limit, simply give us a call and we will come out and drive you home in your own vehicle. Or, alternatively, we can just drive your car home for you, so you can enjoy the rest of your day or night out!”

You can call CRAIG: 0405140258 or ROB: 0466603858 or email info@dial-a-desi.com.au.

The National Convention Centre has been named the nation’s best Meetings and Business Tourism organisation in Australia, in recognition of its efforts to maximise the local tourism experience for meetings and business travellers to the ACT.

The award follows the National Convention Centre’s win, for the second consecutive year, as Canberra’s best Meetings and Business Tourism organisation.

More info at:

http://www.etravelblackboard.com/article/129263/canberras-national-convention-centre-nabs-top-mice-gong

Nominate a family at www.actewagl.com.au/skyfire and tell us why they deserve to win. Hurry, entries close Tuesday 13 March 2012.

We will soon be getting printed copies that will be made available to the public, and be distributed outside of Canberra so that tourists can more easily explore our rich public art collection.

Our thanks go out to Mils and Douglas of the In the City team.

Earth Hour 2012 takes place at the end of this month at 8.30pm on Saturday 31 March.  The theme for Earth Hour this year is ‘Uniting People to Protect the Planet’.

For the last three years, Canberra has had the highest participation rate of any Australian capital city and we want to repeat that success.  In 2010, 52% of the ACT population participated in Earth Hour.

It has also brought about real results.  In 2011, it led to an 8% reduction in the amount of electricity used in Canberra during Earth Hour, and a reduction of 26.93 tonnes in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.

Canberra CBD Limited is an official supporter of Earth Hour in the ACT and we are asking our members to participate.  We appreciate that for many of you the seemingly simple act of turning off lights for Earth Hour can be quite a process so we encourage you to undertake a trial run before the event to work out any issues.

This is also an opportunity for you to either start or re-energise efforts to make long-term commitments to taking action on climate change, in line with this year’s theme of ‘Uniting People to Protect the Planet’.

We are also asking you to officially register your participation through the Earth Hour website. The website has a range of information on how you can support the event including logo and poster downloads. With climate change a big issue for most of us, showing your support for Earth Hour will signal to staff, colleagues and clients that you are committed to addressing this issue.

The ACT Government, through the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate, has the lead in organising Earth Hour 2012 in the ACT, in partnership with ActewAGL and The Canberra Times.  If you have any questions about participating in Earth Hour, or would like posters or flyers, please contact Mayumi Smith, Communications Manager at Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (mayumi.smith@act.gov.au) on 6205 9643.