After reading the 40 Starbucks Challenges taken this week, City Hippy and green LA girl have picked 2 winners!
Winner #1: Justin took 5 challenges, all over the Seattle area, since Challenge 3.0 — despite the fact that he doesn’t like the taste of Cafe Estima!
Award: An enviro-friendly, reusable, and chic workplace dish set (right, a $39 value!)
Some honorable mentions: Matty from Rockville put the challenge before his date — what a guy! And fromscatteredtribe of Arizona had a textbook failure with almost every possible error made and still managed to not murder anyone.
But the winner #2 is… Ardent Eden’s It’s Not Just for Coffee post, which was informative and generated some great comments too.
Award: Fair trade yummies from Clippers-Teas!
Details about Starbucks’ response to this round of the challenge to come soon, pending a call back from Cindy of Starbucks.
We will report back in mid-March, when - according to the LA Starbucks managers we met with last month - all LA-area stores - and hopefully stores all over North America, should, at the very least, have French presses and serve fair trade coffee to those who ask firmly.
Stay tuned — And if you find yourself at a Starbucks between now and then, always ask for fair trade coffee :)
Have a fair trade day :)
City Hippy and green LA girl
Yippee! I never win anything. :)
Comment by lauren — January 10, 2006 @ 11:08 am
Won *my* respect as a writer a while ago! Ardent Eden is *really* nicely written and well thought out . . . although the name always makes me think of that actress from the 50’s and 60’s . . . Eve Arden . . .(rofl) Congratulations!
Comment by Roger, Gone Green — January 10, 2006 @ 1:57 pm
Ditto what Roger said, aside from the Eve Arden part, cuz I don’t know who she is.
Just as an FYI — City Hippy is dealing with an illness in the family, which is why the award post isn’t up on his site…
Comment by Siel — January 10, 2006 @ 7:58 pm
Congrats winners! :-) Thank you for all your support in this Challenge…
Comment by Maya — January 10, 2006 @ 10:37 pm
Out of 40 3.5 challanges, how many passed?
Comment by Roger, Gone Green — January 11, 2006 @ 8:47 am
19 out of 40, if you count this challenge by fromscatteredtribe — where she had to argue about getting a French press, not paying $3.80, and Starbucks’ “all fairly traded” claim before getting her cup of Estima — as a success.
Comment by Siel — January 11, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
Nah. The metric is no argument, no redirect, no “fair what?” SO: 18/40, looks like 45% to me, a solid “F” so far. Course, the coffee cup might be half-full: 45% is halfway!
Comment by Roger, Gone Green — January 12, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Such harsh criteria you have, dear Roger ;) Seriously, if we’re talking no arg, no redirect, no “fair what,” the success rate’s like 10/40. And that’s just cuz we have people in the UK participating — where fair trade’s more popular –
Comment by Siel — January 12, 2006 @ 5:05 pm