300 kilometers by solar bike from Avignon to Arles, via Carpentras, to meet some twenty companies or associations committed to ecological transition ... This is the "micro adventure" that began on Tuesday and for ten days Jérôme Zindy on the roads of Provence to publicize, via social networks, initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint of economic activities, from delivery by cargo bike to the return of itinerant traders in the villages.
Promote sustainable and local solutions
“I have already gone by bike to meet local producers around Avignon and Strasbourg.
There, it is a question of showing that far from the international summits of people commit themselves concretely and on their scale for the climate ”, tells Jérôme Zindy with the handlebars of a prototype of solar bicycle thought by the close company Déclic Eco which him promises, provided you pedal, 70 km of autonomy on sunny days.
“The goal is to make all these sustainable and local solutions known,” he says.
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Jérôme Zindy is supported by the France Active association which supports, finances and networks entrepreneurs committed to the ecological transition.
"It's a good spotlight on our activities", appreciates Raphaël Trouiller who founded a year ago "The wheel turns", financed by the France Relance plan, the first company visited, which delivers to cargo bikes to companies, shops and individuals in the Avignon region.
“This gives us visibility and the possibility of discovering the solutions, the virtuous practices, which each one finds in his field and which can spread by being duplicated elsewhere.
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