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The Green Business Alliance is a diverse group with members providing everything from medical and financial services to catering, legal aid and rock band representation, but two founding members come from surprising sectors.
Liza Borches is with Carter Myers Automotive. “We have installed solar on four of our dealerships, she says. We were the first dealership to be fully powered by the sun in the state.”
They recycle waste oil and filters, and expect to be selling many more electric cars.
“I think it’s 91 new EVs that are coming in the next two years,” Borches says.
Gordon Sutton is preparing for that change. He’s president of Tiger Fuel, where demand for gasoline is flat. “A lot of that’s being driven by the pandemic, he says, but especially in the Charlottesville community you see a lot of EVs, and so we’re starting to install EV chargers.”
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Robert âBobâ Grausam
GRAUSAM, Robert, “Bob”, age 82, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Bob was born on November 29, 1938 and was the eldest of eight siblings. Following his high school graduation from New Ulm Cathedral High School, Bob enlisted in the United States Navy serving aboard the USS Forrestal as a Yeoman.
While on leave in the Navy, Bob met Nancy Ring and married the love of his life on Aug. 27, 1960 in St. Paul, MN. It was in Minnesota that they began their marriage of 60 years, raising four beautiful children together.
Bob was proud of his career in the insurance industry and retired from Employer’s Mutual Casualty of Des Moines, Iowa in 2006. A majority of his career was spent as a marketing representative which took him from his home state of MN to MT, ND, and, finally, ID. The respect of his clients and peers in the industry was acknowledged by being named the “Field Person or Company Person of the Year” in each state in which he worked.
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When it’s finished, the new Apex building will be Virginia’s tallest structure made from mass timber – enormous panels of two-by-fours layered and glued together for strength. Architect Eric Ross says construction is 30-40% faster than building with concrete and steel.
“These are really uniquely prefabricated, highly engineered elements that come to the site and get put together like an erector set, he explains. They will assemble a floor per week.”
The wood holds onto carbon while new trees are planted to replace those that were cut down.
“That sustainably harvested wood has sequestered carbon through its growth, and then the manufacturer is replanting the forest at a rate twice if not more than what they took out. So we’ve lowered our carbon footprint from the beginning,” he says.