It's raining again. In torrents. I'm sure the plants are loving it; the rain making everything green and healthy. We want to make everything green and healthy too. That's why we've started the DoubleShot Green Initiative, to make the DoubleShot more environmentally sensitive and to make it easier for you to be "green."

We allow you to do a number of things to "reduce your carbon footprint." We're not really sure how our footprints became carbonized in the first place. But here's what we've come up with so far to help out:
Drink coffee in ceramic instead of paper to-go cups.
Re-use your paper cup (maybe plant seedlings in it because they don't last too long when you keep refilling with coffee) or buy a travel cup. We have great travel cups for sale at the DoubleShot or bring your own.
We are now recycling paper at the DoubleShot, so when you're done with the news, throw it in the "Recycle" box. (Thanks to Christie for making this happen.)
You can bring your one-pound or half-pound bags back in when you buy more coffee beans and we'll refill them.
We bag up our spent coffee grounds for you to take and use in your garden.
You probably throw away a cup sleeve every day. If you save it, you can bring it back and use it again. Or if, like Patrick Fox, you have a huge pile of cup sleeves sitting around your office, bring them in and we'll re-use them all.
I moved the bike rack inside the building. It's hard to ride your bike to work when it rains every day, but when you do you can park inside. No worries about someone stealing or messing with your bike.
You know all those jute coffee bags full of unroasted coffee beans that are piled around the roaster? Well, my mom is taking the empty ones home and making them into really nice, sturdy, lined shopping bags. Buy one and the next time you go to the grocery store you won't have to bother with the pesky "paper or plastic?" flimsy, disposable bags.

I'm a conservationist, I guess. I love nature and the wilderness. I regret that we don't have the un-domesticated lands that the great explorers of our country walked through. That our wild animals are all but extinct. That even the small patches of "wilderness" we have left (like Turkey Mountain), our government bureaucracy wants to "improve." LEAVE IT ALONE!
Anyway, when I was in college I was called a "bleeding heart liberal" for my stand on nature and conservation. That made me laugh. Call it what you will, but do your part to help.

Don't be an EARTH HATER!