EDF Energy cyclists Tony Harding, Phil Allin, Simon Lord and Tom Cann arrived at Eden on Wednesday.
25 June 2010
Employees from EDF Energy have pedalled their way to the Eden Project.
It was the finishing point for a series of rides stretching from the Bristol Channel to the English Channel for Team Green Britain Bike Week.
The four cyclists Tony Harding, Phil Allin, Simon Lord and Tom Cann arrived after travelling a 42-mile route from the energy company's Manadon office in Plymouth, via both the Torpoint and Fowey ferries.
It was the third and final leg, with colleagues biking from EDF Energy's Hinkley Point nuclear power station to its Exeter office on Monday and others from there to Plymouth on Tuesday. The final four arrived at Eden yesterday (June 23), ahead of this weekend's (June 26 and 27) Festival of Cycling. The festival, organised by Cornwall Council, is part of Team Green Britain Bike Week sponsored by EDF Energy.
Team Green Britain - including Team Green Britain Bike Week - is a growing movement of people and groups brought together by EDF Energy through a shared commitment to lowering Britain’s carbon footprint.
Tony, 54, a senior business analyst at EDF Energy in Exeter, organised the rides and completed the whole 150-mile route.
He said: "It's been a fantastic experience, great weather and what a finishing line Eden is. I think we've seen the South West at its best. It's the first time that the Festival of Cycling has come to Eden and I'm sure it will be brilliant. I want to say well done to all the cyclists who took part for Team Green Britain."
EDF Energy has more than 2,000 staff in Cornwall and Devon, with green travel plans for its Plymouth and Exeter offices, including incentives for employees who cycle to work.
To register for the festival and get free entry to the Eden Project go to the Team Green Britain Bike Week website www.bikeweek.org.uk/cornwallfestivalofcycling
Team Green Britain Bike Week is an annual event that aims to show how, by getting on our bikes, we can all play our part towards a greener future while exercising and saving time and money too. For more information go to: www.bikeweek.org.uk
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For more information please contact Dan Pritchard on 01392 813783 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 the Eden Project, Global Action Plan, Eco-Schools and London 2012. 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 Climate 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 legacy 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