One hundred and twenty bicycle riders will pedal out of Manhattan at 10 a.m. Saturday to start the 2008 Brita Climate Ride.
The riders will take five days to cover the 320 miles from New York City to Washington, D.C., where they will take their message about global climate change to federal legislators. Along the way, they will attempt to raise awareness about the climate crisis.
On Monday, the riders will make their first scheduled stop in Lancaster County at the Strasburg Country Store & Creamery, 1 W Main Street, at 1 p.m., where they will stop for ice cream.
Beginning at 3 p.m., they will be at Camp Andrews, 1226 Silver Springs Road in Holtwood, where there will be sharing their traveling “climate conference on wheels” before bedding down for the night.
The public is invited to the camp to meet the riders. During the evening hours there will be speakers, including: Gary Ferenz, of Conectiv Energy, from 7-7:10 p.m.; Wood Turner, of Climate Counts, from 7:10-7:40 p.m.; presentations on carbon trading from Point Carbon, beginning at 7:40 p.m.; followed by discussions by individual riders. The featured speaker of the evening is Randy Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association.
The public is invited back on Tuesday morning to wake the riders for their 7 a.m. departure and see them off as they head to Washington.
