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August 30, 2007. spear the fourth edition of a contest inviting the workers, the employers and the students of Quebec to make the test of one fashion of ecological transportation, in order to reduce the emissions of gas to greenhouse effect (GES).

All person who commits to use one fashion of alternative transportation runs luck to win one of the two kits ” cocktail transportation”, of a value of 3 000 $CA1. The kit consists among others of an one year subscription to the collective transportation of his/her/its region, a new bicycle, a subscription to Communauto and a forfeit in the lodging The Gardens of the Millefeuille yarrow.

This year, the employers are especially aimed by the contest of Équiterre. Enterprises, institutions and organisms are invited to make the promotion of the lasting transportation and the telecommuting by their employees, their suppliers or their customers. An employer could win a Communauto forfeit for ten users, a credit of 500 $THAT at Via Rail and 100 $THAT in coupons of taxicab.

” The “cocktail transportation” is a combination intelligent of individual and collective transportation that permits to move the most quickly and as efficiently as possible, while reducing the impact on the environment:  he/it doesn’t imply a complete abandonment of the private car, but rather an use more efficient and moderate”, indicate Équiterre.

For the environment… and health!

The contest of aims to reduce the GES, but also to attenuate the ominous effects of the use of the car on health.

” More and more people are touched by the sédentarisation and the pollution of air, which generate or aggravate respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, obesity, allergies and premature deaths”, underline the organism. Of the stroke, the practice of the walk, the bicycle or the skate to aligned wheels increases the physical activity and decrease stress, one adds.

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