Whoever’s challenger #200 gets a bottle of Finca Solano Tempranillo Crianza from me, if you live in the LA area or are willing to make a trip out to talk fair trade over wine with green LA girl. I guess that means the challenger gets half a bottle — or a quarter, to be more exact.
Latest stats: 194 challenges taken with 161 individual blogs joining in from 27 states (welcome New Mexico! Still waiting on Alabama and Utah…), plus Washington DC, and 13 countries (welcome Austria!).
Of the 31 challenges added since the last update, only 18 passed — a few only after a lot of arm-twisting. A couple of the unsuccesses were proto-challenges we belatedly discovered — but previous stats also contain proto-challenges –
I can feel Cindy and Major’s blood pressures going up…. If they had it their way, this “break down in customer service” would’ve been fixed in October — or better yet, never have happened to begin with.
They’re getting an unfortunate taste of what I feel — a sense of angry helplessness in the face of a large, postmodern corporate machine –
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Keep fighting the good fight. I have voted with my feet. There are not a lot of Starbucks outlets in Upstate New York, but I will drive those that there are to support locally-owned cafes. I try to buy fair trade, organic coffee online. I also shop as much as possible for foods grown close to home. All of this is much more work, but is much more worth it. You are doing a great job of pointing out that this once chic, semi-bohem coffee shop has become the Wal-Mart of espresso drinks. Hold their feet to the fire, Green Girl, and shop with the moms and pops when you can.
Comment by Hollis — November 19, 2005 @ 11:42 am
Ok, my Report No. 6 is up and *tagged* at del.ico.us . . . but be careful, all six are at http://sbxfairtrade.blogspot.com, including a couple you linked to (on your LJ and on my other blog) so you may be counting a couple twice :-/
Roger
Comment by Roger, Gone Green — November 19, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
Hey Roger — I made sure I didn’t tag the old challenges you reposted on the sbxfairtrade blog. You seem to be going all over the place — all areas I never go to. A very mobile stay at home dad :)
Hollis — Thanks for the encouragement :) I’m hoping we can get a movement going to get more fair trade certified coffee in mom & pop shops too. Many, I think, would convert if they just were alerted to the issue –
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