inspiredeconomist.com — Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is given credit by many for revolutionizing the American coffee drinking experience. The company however is both praised and criticized by environmentalists. Is Starbucks a leader of sustainability or greenwashed?
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sarafina42Oct 21, 2008
I've noticed that companies that make a big step in the right direction are held to higher standards. Their customer base is really different than Dunkin' Donuts for example, as are their prices.
nickert0nOct 22, 2008
Who gives a s**t, the earth will be fine, we will not.
sdocpublishingOct 22, 2008
Over 60% of all Starbucks coffee beans are Fair Trade certified, but blended with beans that are not, so those blends cannot be called Fair Trade coffees. Instead of complaining online about a topic you are ignorant about go here <a class="user" href="http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp">http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp</a> and read it for yourself.Yes, you can walk in and request any of the coffees Starbucks produces, including fair trade certified (Cafe Estima), and have a french press prepared (at an extra cost due to the extra work) or have it brewed in the drip coffee brewer.If you have yet to hear of anyone receiving Fair Trade certified coffee on request it is because you are already critical of Starbucks and you are hearing what you want to hear. Can you walk in and ask for this and have employees look at you with a "what are you talking about" look on their face. Of course, with any retail/restaurant chain Starbucks has a high turnover rate and not every new employee, and sometimes older ones are aware of every single policy in the store. Especially when an uninformed, pseudo-environmentalist who read about Fair Trade for the first time on the Internet just the day before walks into a Starbucks for no reason other then to be jerk to the guy behind the counter by demanding they brew Fair Trade certified coffee and then overreact when the employee doesn't know exactly what to do.
xxgoodnessxxOct 22, 2008
im from Seattle Washington home of starbucks and i love their coffee
omnithoughtOct 23, 2008
java /= coffee in general
kingnuttyOct 23, 2008
coffee bean & tea leaf.