http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/05/meet-bob-garver-owner-of-wicked-joe-coffee/ Meet Bob Garver, owner of Wicked Joe Coffee By Mary Pols [2015/07/05]
From the company's solar-powered Topsham roastery to its electric vans, the Maine coffee business strives to be as sustainable as possible ... As we learned when we called him to ask questions such as, "What is bird-friendly coffee?" the roastery he and his wife, Carmen, run is jammed with features designed to make a greener cup of joe ... MACHINE MATTERS: Garver made the switch to a seriously expensive coffee roasting machine recently, the Loring Smart Roaster. The marketing for these machines included some sustainability-related promises that they'd use about 80 percent less fossil fuel and put out 80 percent fewer emissions, Garver said. "We believe it is a best practice to be as sustainable as we can be," he said. So far, the machine has been delivering on the sales job, he said ... BACK HOME: Wicked Joe moved from Brunswick to the old Navy base commissary in Topsham in 2013, which gave Garver a chance to bring energy efficiency to the business in a big way. They insulated the building with foam, added skylights to supply natural light, put a photovoltaic solar array on the roof to power the electricity and a solar wall to offset heating costs (their system runs on natural gas). Their vans, used for coffee delivery, including to Bard in Portland (which the couple also owns), are all electric. Even their forklift is electric. PLUGGED IN: They have a charging station for those electric vehicles, which they make available to any member of the public with a need to plug in their car. It's powered by the solar installation. "So my electric cars run on solar, at least some of the time." Because the sun doesn't always shine ... [© 2015 MaineToday Media] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ http://kron4.com/2015/07/09/stanford-students-debut-solar-car-for-race-across-australia/ Stanford students debut solar car for race across Australia http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubballi/Hubballi-students-solar-car-brings-laurels/articleshow/47860577.cms Hubballi students' solar car brings laurels http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/cary-news/cn-community/article26562814.html L2 EVSE @bobbarker.com Fuquay_Varina-NC https://www.facebook.com/bobbarkercompany/photos/a.183081618410181.85727.141976459187364/888933454491657/?type=1 + EVLN: shadoEV.com 4seat EV can be manufactured anywhere in the world {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-wickedjoe-com-PV-charged-Electric-coffee-delivery-vans-tp4676735.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
