On Friday, December 4th, a large number of ´Committed Belgians´ have cycled their way to Copenhagen. With the special ´Pedal for Copenhagen´ action, Dixie Dansercoer invited on the site of (ANT)ARCTICMATTERS a number of ´famous´ but committed fellow citizens to spend the day together producing as much energy as possible by cycling on a virtual trip to Copenhagen, where the decisive Climate Summit is set to begin on December 7th. The participants include Rob Vanoudenhoven, Jean Bosco Safari, Christ´l Joris, Joost Callens, Freddy Maertens, Rutger Beke, and Tine Deckers, to name just a few. The action continued until Sunday, December 6th.

In order to bridge the 1,000 kilometres which separate us from Copenhagen, the participants made use of 5 stationary and 5 energy bicycles which transform the energy into kilometres. Over the three days all visitors cycled more than 2000 kilometres (to Copenhagen and back to Bruges) on the cycling counters. Dixie: "I´m delighted by the commitment of so many who are taking action to generate greater awareness about what's happening to our climate. A surprisingly large number of participants, familiar faces, but also many visitors to (ANT)ARCTICMATTERS, have enthusiastically cycled lots of energy (more than 2200 Kwh!) and kilometres on the counters. We can only bring climate change under control by making further efforts. This action is a step towards helping people to better understand the importance of these efforts."

Dixie also invited all cyclists to visit the audiovisual exhibition (ANT)ARCTICMATTERS. Many visitors signed the 'Personal GlobaI Matters Charter'. Each signer makes a personal commitment to help put a stop to global warming.

We would like to thank warmly all our enthusiastic cyclers!

Stefan Maes