Bird lovers in Santa Monica — Your coffee’s arrived. Co-opportunity’s now offering 6 different coffees (above) from Caffe Ibis, a company known for its triple-certified beans (fair trade, organic, Smithsonian certified bird-friendly)!
I bought a couple pounds — and was also gonna get some organic and fair trade Equal Exchange coffee (right) — but it was all sold out, being on sale for $7.99.
But it’s nice to live in a place where fair trade coffee’s so popular!
And of course there are other conveniences. On the way out I dropped off some batteries for recycling in the convenient tubes –
Then when I got home my neighbor gave me a perfect lil chili from his garden!
I chopped it up and put it in my “medium” Whole Foods salsa, which was tasting a lot like plain tomato sauce.
Since then, life’s been spicier.
I wish people gave as much thought as to where they live and how they consume as they do to the labels on their coffee.
Comment by tedl — August 19, 2008 @ 4:35 pm
To be clearer: I know too many people who obsess over their triple certification coffee, and meanwhile don’t give a second thought to the $29 Wal-Mart DVD player they are so jazzed about — the labor practices and the manufacturing byproduct dumping in Chinese rivers be damned.
Comment by tedl — August 19, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
Yr a bit of a debbie downer, no? We could add that it’s horrible how people are spending money on a luxury like coffee when there are people starving and big enviro problems to be solved….
But to cheer you up — We don’t have any Walmarts in Santa Monica.
Comment by Siel — August 19, 2008 @ 6:11 pm