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**** STARS HELPING THE WORLD **** Miranda Kerr Supermodel Miranda Kerr’s Earth Hour challenge has been accepted and celebrities all around the world are now making their own “I Will If You Will” challenges to inspire people to take much needed action for the environment. Miranda Kerr will conduct a free yoga class for the public now that 500 of her fans have committed to create their own “I Will If You Will” challenge for Earth Hour. Transformers star, Australian actress and keen environmentalist Isabel Lucas, has pledged to plant 100 trees if 100 people plant one tree each. ''Earth Hour is an opportunity to come together to support a cause for the greater good of our planet and our whole human family. A moment to feel grateful for the life giving trees, the air we breath, the food and water that nourish us and the beauty of mother nature,” said Lucas. “I hope Earth Hour inspires us to consider and integrate sustainable ways of living that respect our earth and one another,” sh...

**** “I Will If You Will” **** Miranda Kerr International supermodel Miranda Kerr has been announced as an Earth Hour global ambassador for the second consecutive year to use her voice to inspire people to participate in the new “I Will If You Will” campaign. The model, entrepreneur and eco-advocate is the first celebrity to publicly announce an “I Will If You Will” challenge, which encourages people to go beyond the hour and take positive action for the environment. Miranda Kerr has pledged to conduct a free yoga class if 500 of her fans upload their own “I Will If You Will” challenge to www.youtube.com/earthhour . View her challenge here. Miranda Kerr said Earth Hour gives each and every one of us the incredible power to change the world we live in and take sustainability actions in our daily lives. “I hope my first challenge inspires my friends, family and fans to make their own promise for the environment,” Kerr said. “This year I’ve made the commitment to reduce my footprint by of...

The Earth Is Melting In about 45 years, temperatures on Earth will be hotter than at anytime during the past one million years, says the U.S. government's top climatologist in a new report released today.According to the report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the planet is just two degrees shy of an average temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit, which is what they believe the temperature was about a million years ago. NASA's James Hansen, along with colleagues from the University of California and Columbia University, are for the first time, marking a calendar signaling the approach of temperatures that humans have never experienced." Humans are now in control of the Earth's climate, for better or worse," Hansen tells ABC News. Based on a "business as usual" scenario in which greenhouse gasses continue to rise unabated, Hansen says we'll break the million-year-old record in about 45 years. But he stresses we can'...