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'''Salt Spring Coffee''' is a business that produces [[Coffee roasting|roasted coffee beans]] and operates a coffee kiosk.

Headquartered in [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]], [[British Columbia]], the company attempts to [[Product differentiation|differentiate]] itself in the market by following sustainability values in their corporate vision statement.<ref>{{cite web |title= Sustainable values |url= http://www.saltspringcoffee.com/Mission-Vision/Sustainable-values-creating-exceptional-coffee.html |publisher= Salt Spring Coffee Co. |access-date= July 29, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160122105213/http://www.saltspringcoffee.com/Mission-Vision/Sustainable-values-creating-exceptional-coffee.html |archive-date= January 22, 2016 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> The Salt Spring Coffee Company operates a kiosk at the [[Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Murrills |first=Angela |title= Salt Spring Coffee|work= [[The Georgia Straight]] |date=March 30, 2006 |url= https://www.straight.com/article/salt-spring-coffee-company |access-date= July 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Where to find us |url= http://www.saltspringcoffee.com/Where-to-find-us/ |publisher= Salt Spring Coffee |access-date= July 29, 2009}}</ref> Their coffees are marketed as by being Fair to Farmer Direct, [[certified organic]], [[fair trade]], [[shade grown coffee|shade grown]], and [[carbon neutral]].<ref name="McCulloch" /> They maintain organic certification through the Pacific Agricultural Certification Society.<ref>{{cite web |title= PACS Membership Listing |url= http://www.pacscertifiedorganic.ca/pacs_certified_organic_pacs_membership_listing.html |publisher= Pacific Agricultural Certification Society |access-date=July 29, 2009}}</ref>

== History ==
The company was founded in 1996 by Mickey McLeod and his wife Robbyn Scott who operated an organic market garden on the island. They had been roasting coffee beans for their own consumption but eventually added their coffee to their product line.

To become carbon neutral, the company audited their energy consumption, took measures to reduce their emissions, and purchased [[carbon offsets]]. Their audit found they produce 263 tonnes of [[carbon dioxide equivalent]] in 2007, half of which came from roasting their beans.<ref>{{cite book |title= Doing Business in a New Climate |last= Carlson |first= Deborah |author2= Paul Lingl |year= 2008 |publisher= David Suzuki Foundation |location= Vancouver |isbn= 978-1-897375-19-8 |page= 60 |url= http://www.davidsuzuki.org/files/reports/Doing_Business_Web.pdf |access-date= July 29, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090802185830/http://www.davidsuzuki.org/files/reports/Doing_Business_Web.pdf |archive-date= August 2, 2009 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all }}</ref> They purchase their offsets from the [[Carbonfund.org|Carbonfund Foundation]] and [[Offsetters]]. The company claims to the first carbon neutral coffee sold in Canada.<ref name="mainstream">{{cite news |title=Green goes mainstream |work=[[The Vancouver Sun]] |date=April 15, 2008 |url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=95d70530-0a29-4a24-b4d5-140a725d07ee&k=198 |access-date=2009-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513031436/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=95d70530-0a29-4a24-b4d5-140a725d07ee&k=198 |archive-date=May 13, 2013 }}</ref> Salt Spring Coffee was recognized by the [[David Suzuki Foundation]] in their 2010 report ''Doing Business in a New Climate''.<ref name="davidsuzuki.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/resources/2010/doing-business-in-a-new-climate/ |title=Doing Business in a New Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Publications | David Suzuki Foundation |access-date=2012-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729043324/http://www.davidsuzuki.org/publications/resources/2010/doing-business-in-a-new-climate/ |archive-date=2012-07-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The report outlines Salt Springs Coffee's Carbon Cool initiative, which set out in 2007 with the goal of offering one of the world’s first [[Carbon neutrality|carbon neutral]] cups of coffee.<ref name="davidsuzuki.org" />

== Locations ==

Salt Spring Coffee owns and operates a kiosk at [[Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal]]. The Ganges location on Salt Spring Island closed in September 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.saltspringcoffee.com/about-us/our-cafes/ganges-cafe/|title=Ganges Cafe - Salt Spring Island » Salt Spring Coffee|work=Salt Spring Coffee|access-date=2018-01-01|language=en-US}}</ref> A third cafe was previously located on Vancouver's [[Main Street (Vancouver)|Main Street]].

==Move from Salt Spring==
Salt Spring Coffee applied for rezoning of a residential lot on Salt Spring Island in the summer of 2008. The company wanted to relocate its offices and roasting facility into a new 1,115-square-metre building. Residents of the rural neighbourhood, including artist [[Robert Bateman (naturalist)|Robert Bateman]],<ref name=Moneo>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |author=Shannon Moneo |title=Trouble brewing on Saltspring Island |date=April 6, 2009 |page=A3}}</ref> expressed concerns about the introduction of industrial zoning (a half-kilometre from Ford Lake) including: commercial and industrial sprawl along the main road, odour concerns, and emissions effecting a nearby protected wetland.<ref name="McCulloch">{{cite news |last=McCulloch |first=Sandra |title=Trouble brewing on Saltspring Island over new location of coffee company |work= [[Times-Colonist]] |location = Victoria |date=January 27, 2009 |page=A4}}</ref><ref name=Moneo/> An Islands Trustee has "cited outstanding odour concerns, the large number of [proposed] covenants, and the threat of commercial and industrial sprawl in the rural neighbourhood as her main reasons for opposing the application."<ref>{{cite news |first=Sean |last= McIntyre |title= Coffee Co. loses trustee's support |work= Gulf Islands Driftwood Newspaper |date=July 8, 2009 |url= http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saltspringislanddriftwood/news/50177837.html |access-date= July 29, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> The company was seeking to build the world's first [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] certified coffee roasting facility, however the application for rezoning was denied<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Gulf Islands Driftwood |author=Peter Vincent |title=Head-to-Head - Columnist offers spiritual stock-taking at end of '09 |url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/80345122.html |date=December 30, 2009 |access-date=January 22, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Following the refusal, the company sought alternative locations in the Victoria and Vancouver areas.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |author=Shannon Moneo |title=Voted off the island? Salt Spring coffee company contemplates next move |date=August 8, 2009 |page=S2}}</ref>

In January 2009 the company began roasting production in a [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]] distribution warehouse, as they searched for an appropriate permanent location.<ref name=headache /><ref name=Sjuberg /> Shortly after employees of a neighbouring business, International Cosmeticare, complained of symptoms including "nausea, eye and skin irritation, headaches, coughing, sneezing and breathing difficulties" which they blamed on the roasting.<ref name=Sjuberg>{{cite news|newspaper=Gulf Islands Driftwood |author=Gail Sjuberg |title=Richmond: Coffee Co. roasting not welcome |url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saltspringislanddriftwood/news/80318077.html |date=December 30, 2009 |access-date=January 22, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103025632/http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/saltspringislanddriftwood/news/80318077.html |archive-date=January 3, 2010 }}</ref> Salt Spring Coffee had been using a [[thermal oxidizer]], which is supposed to control air pollution, but [[Metro Vancouver]] (the agency which regulates air emissions) had not yet approved the company's permit and it was speculated that the thermal oxidizer was not installed correctly or it was not being maintained. WorkSafe BC ordered the company to make changes to the exhaust system so that the air is not recirculated into the building and to not roast during weekday business hours.<ref name=headache>{{cite news|first=Martin |last=van den Hemel |title=Salt Spring Coffee headache comes to roast in Richmond |work=Richmond Review |date=Dec 26, 2009 |page=1 |url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/news/80077817.html |access-date=May 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100507212949/http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/news/80077817.html |archive-date=May 7, 2010 }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Coffeehouses and cafés in Canada]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1996]]
[[Category:Salt Spring Island]]
[[Category:Food and drink companies based in British Columbia]]

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