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Green Team Series – Walk. Bike. Bus. Pool. Click. Symantec Wins Eugene/Springfield Business Commute Challenge!

This week we bring you a two-part series highlighting activities across our Green Teams. These are just a snapshot of the numerous activities our Green Teams are contributing to every day ranging from volunteering in local communities to spearheading campus-wide sustainability efforts.

Today we begin with a post on our Springfield office’s recent award for sustainable commuting. Following we will bring you an update on the Green Team’s One Mug, One Planet campaign. 

 

Last month, over 200 Symantec employees at our Springfield office participated in the region’s annual Business Commute Challenge (BCC), and helped our office win in the category for the largest sized companies!

The BCC is an annual week-long, friendly competition amongst local area Eugene-Springfield businesses to promote low impact forms of commuting and challenge companies to save the most non-drive alone trips in one week. The competition brings employers and workplace teams together to turn the daily commute into a transportation adventure.

 

This year more than 1,932 local employeesformed 175 teams to participate in the BCC. In just one week, BCC participants reduced single-person car travel by 68,987 miles, saving 70,234 pounds of carbon dioxide.

 

Symantec has participated in this challenge in previous years, but this year we saw an incredible jump in participation and enthusiasm for the event. 203 employees - 14% of the site - signed up and participated. Of those employees, we logged 612 commute days (or non-drive alone trips) during the competition week from May 10th – 16th placing us at the top of our category.

Emissions from commuting are one of the key impacts our employees and business have on the environment, and we are constantly looking for ways to promote and encourage sustainable and healthy transportation options.

This effort was spearheaded by Internal Green Team Leader Robin Carl. Thank you Robin, all participants, and congrats to our Springfield office for paving the way for sustainable commuting in your community!

 

Interested in learning more about Symantec’s Green Teams?

We now have 16 employee-led Green Teams across Symantec that are active in a variety of activities. If you are interested learning more about Symantec’s Green Teams please contact Environmental_Responsibility@symantec.com.

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Symantec employees Johanna Laemle (Green Team Lead), Robin Carl (Internal Green Team Lead) and Jim Swallow show off the company’s award for winning the Eugene-Springfield region’s annual Business Commute Challenge. Over 175 teams took part in this year’s challenge. 

 

Robin Carl is Symantec’s Senior IT Business Analyst.

 

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