Tag: Coffee
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The (Coffee) Pod People Are Taking Over Europe
The triumph of convenience over common sense and good taste takes hold even in Italy
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20 Ways to Reuse Coffee Grounds and Tea Leaves
From soothing burns to removing odors, coffee grounds and tea leaves have more than one life. Give them a productive reincarnation in any of these applications.
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How To Sell The Greenest Coffee: In Mason Jars, Delivered By Cargo Bike
It's also Fair trade, organic, bird friendly, shade grown, Cafe Feminino, freshly roasted. Whew.
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Not Only are Single Cup Coffee Pods A Ridiculous Waste of Materials, They Are A Worse Waste of Money
You are paying as much as fifty bucks a pound for the convenience of making lousy coffee.
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Starbucks Sustainability Report Paints A Mostly Rosy Picture Of Green Progress
Starbucks' latest sustainability report is out. TreeHugger sat down with VP of global responsibility Ben Packard to unpack some of the details.
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Starbucks Experiments in "Laboratory" Store in Amsterdam
The new store converts an old bank into an exercise in green, hyperlocal design
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In the Future, Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
Stephen Gordon describes the coffeeshopification of our education, our jobs and our lives.
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Keurig And Other Coffee Pods Piling Up In Landfills Across America
If there ever was a demonstration of how convenience won over economic sensibility and environmental common sense, this is it.
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Wake Up With Leonardo DiCaprio’s Fair Trade Organic Coffee
Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.
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Fair Trade USA Splits From International Fair Trade Organization, Favoring the Corporatization of Coffee
Fair Trade USA splits from the rest of the world over the support of coops and the small farmer vs big corporate control of coffee
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Who Would Have Thought That My Presso Coffee Maker Is The Most Repairable Thing I Own? (Photos)
These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!
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Just What You Don't Want For Christmas: A Single Serve Pod Coffee Maker
It's the fastest growing thing in the coffee world, it is overpriced, and it is an environmental joke.
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Former Barista Tells Starbucks: Brew More Fair Trade Coffee
Sam Greenblatt liked working for Starbucks—he thought the company treated its employees well. But when he learned that Starbucks offers 100-percent fair trade-certified coffee and espresso at its stores in Europe, he
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Cool Lamps Made Of Coffee Cups, Spoons & Filters By Christian DuCharme
On display at New York City's Lafayette Espresso Bar + Market is a lighting design that coffee junkies will no doubt appreciate. Created by Swiss designer Christian DuCharme, this custom-made lamp was made with
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The Week in Pictures: Living Map of Central Park, a Bike with Metal Tires, and More (Slideshow)
We've featured a lot of vertical gardens on TreeHugger, many of them superb but none quite like this one, grown as a living map of New York's Central Park.
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8 TreeHugger-Tested Coffeemakers for Professional Home Brew (Slideshow)
Making your own coffee instead of stopping by the local coffee shop saves energy, water, and paper (just think: no more disposable cups!) -- not to mention, at $6 a cup for that Starbucks indulgence, slashes your
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8 TreeHugger-Tested Coffeemakers for Professional Home Brew
Making your own coffee instead of stopping by the local coffee shop saves energy, water, and paper (just think: no more disposable cups!) -- not to mention, at $6 a cup for that Starbucks indulgence, slashes your monthly spending by a hefty chunk. But wh
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Folgers Investors Demand a Plan for Adapting Coffee Business to Climate Change
When you think of Smucker's, jelly and jams typically come to mind, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. The J.M.
