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SC Fight for Clean Energy Continues

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A clean energy organization in our state recently decided to end its operations and turn its efforts and its leaders, our next guests, over to a regional organization with a South Carolina task force.

Mike Switzer interviews Bonnie Loomis, former executive director of the South Carolina Clean Energy Business Alliance (SCCEBA), and now the South Carolina managing director for E4 Carolinas, while Weston Adams is the former chair of SCCEBA’s board and is now an E4 Carolinas Board of Directors member and the co-chair of its SC task force.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.