CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (BUSINESS WIRE)
The Community Climate Collaborative (C3) announced the launch of a newly-formed alliance of sixteen Virginia-based businesses and nonprofits to address climate change and ready our economy for a clean energy future. Governor Ralph Northam spoke at a press conference Wednesday, May 5
th, at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital to introduce the Green Business Alliance (GBA), and their ambitious target to reduce their collective climate emissions by 45% by 2025, nearly five years earlier than a recent target set by the Biden Administration.
“While 30% of Fortune 500 businesses have made declarations of climate emissions reductions, smaller companies, which comprise 99.5% of Virginia businesses, also have a leadership role to play in helping the Commonwealth meet its climate goals,” said C3 Executive Director, Susan Kruse. “The launch of the GBA demonstrates that small and medium-size businesses can embrace climate leadership and take action in
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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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The donation was made in the name of Walker Beery, a young boy who was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumor, back in August 2019.
The St. Baldrickâs Foundation is the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer research grants.
The donation was In lieu of holiday gifts - like wreaths and gift baskets - typically sent to customers this year.
âWe made a small contribution in honor of Walker, and we knew that our Tiger Fuel customers would be honored to be able to help us do that, and were happy to give up a wreath and maybe a fruit basket in honor of supporting a young man like Walker,â Tiger Fuel Company President Gordon Sutton said.