Green Britain Day in Sussex

18 June 2010

Pupils at schools across Sussex have helped plant hundreds of trees in the county for Green Britain Day (June 17).

Employees from EDF Energy in Hove and Crawley joined pupils and teachers to plant saplings at schools in and around East and West Sussex.

Green Britain Day is a day of celebration for Team Green Britain, a growing movement of hundreds of thousands of people and groups brought together by EDF Energy, through a shared commitment to lowering Britain’s carbon footprint.

Saplings have been planted at:

Blackthorns Community Primary School, Blackthorns Close, Haywards Heath

Halsford Park Primary School, Manor Road, East Grinstead

Kingslea Primary School, Kings Road, Horsham

Slinfold Primary School, The Street, Slinfold

Buckingham Park Primary School, Buckingham Road, Shoreham

Hawthorns, Poplar Road, Worthing

Heene First School, Norfolk Street, Worthing

Twineham Primary School, Church Lane, Twineham

Birdham Primary School, Crooked Lane, Birdham

Downsbrook Middle School, Dominion Road, Worthing

Thomas A Becket First School, Pelham Road, Worthing

Downs View Special School, Warren Road, Brighton

Brighton and Hove High School, Radinden Manor Road, Hove

Mile Oak Primary School, Graham Avenue, Hove

Meanwhile, EDF Energy employees celebrated Green Britain Day at the company’s offices in Hove, Worthing and Crawley, with sustainable lunches, home-grown produce sales, cake sales and green charity collections.

Colin Barden, EDF Energy’s head of network operations for the South-East, said: “Green Britain Day continues to grow, with many more people and schools involved this year, which is fantastic. Hopefully, their efforts will inspire others to join us and do their bit to become more sustainable.”

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For more information please contact James Barber on 01293 509147 in the EDF Energy press office.

Notes to editors

Team Green Britain was kicked off by EDF Energy, the UK’s largest producer of low carbon electricity, in partnership with London 2012, the Eden Project, Global Action Plan, and Eco-Schools. It is a growing group of people all across Britain doing what they can to reduce their carbon footprint by changing their lives in ways which are better for them and the environment.

Green Britain Day is a day each year where schools, communities, businesses and other motivated people showcase and celebrate what the Team are doing as an inspiration to the rest of the country to join us. This year, Green Britain Day is on June 17.

Through Our Sustainability Commitments, EDF Energy has launched the biggest environmental programme to tackle climate change of any UK energy company. In these commitments, we have pledged to reduce the intensity of carbon emissions from our power plants by 60% and to lower the proportion of carbon arising from our customers’ energy consumption by 15% by 2020.

As well as reducing the carbon intensity of our emissions, EDF Energy has a social and ethical responsibility to encourage the next generation of environmental guardians to take action against climate change. This is why EDF Energy has worked with Eco-Schools to set up “the Pod”, which aims to educate 2.5 million school children about sustainable living by 2012.  

For information about Team Green Britain go to www.teamgreenbritain.org and the Pod www.jointhepod.org