Zen Internet celebrates Environmental Week

Zen Internet Managing Director Richard Tang

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Staff at Zen Internet, the Rochdale-based independent Internet Service Provider (ISP), will be celebrating Environmental Week from Monday 18 April with a wide range of activities to raise awareness about Green issues.

The week-long series of events will culminate on Friday 22 April with the global celebration of World Earth Day, when more than one billion people in 192 countries will take action to protect the shared environment.

Zen Internet Chief Executive Richard Tang said: “Since it began Zen has held strong ethical convictions and believes it has a responsibility to identify, manage and minimise its impact on the environment. So when colleagues suggested we host an environmental week in support of World Earth Day I was very happy to support the idea. We will join millions of people who already use Earth Day to focus on the urgent need to stabilise and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change."

During the week Zen will encourage colleagues to put forward wildlife photographs in a competition to celebrate the natural world and have the chance to win annual membership with the National Trust.

Staff will also get the opportunity to test drive the latest, environmentally-friendly electric cars from Nissan and Tesla, as well as working in the community Q Gardens at Kirkholt where they will learn about tending their own plot, raising vegetable beds and bird nesting boxes.

Other activities during the week include:

• A visit from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to talk about wildlife in the garden and how to make a home for solitary bees.
• The introduction of a car sharing scheme database to reduce the number of cars on the road and carbon emissions.
• A swap shop and up-cycling workshop with local homeless charity Emmaus, which specialises in the re-use of materials

On Friday Richard Tang will plant a Mountain Ash tree in Zen Internet’s award-winning gardens to mark World Earth Day. This forms part of the Earth Day Network’s pledge to plant 7.8 billion trees worldwide – one for every person on earth - in order to combat climate change and keep vulnerable ecosystems from extinction.