My Daily Starbucks, consumer waste, and a good buzz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday December 12, 2007 · 8:42 PM PST

2007/12/12 · 20:42

I buy at least one Starbucks coffee beverage every day as part of my commute to work. My morning desk feels incomplete without a triple grande one pump no whip skim mocha. Yes, I'm a bit of an addict. Yes, I can handle it. :-) Yes, go ahead and lampoon me in a Saturday Night Live skit.

But I have some concerns about this company's "green cred," and want them to do better. Although I don't mean to single them out (there are companies that are wretchedly evil compared with Starbucks), and although I probably won't stop visiting them daily (sometimes twice daily if my energy is lagging), I have noticed some wasteful patterns that I want to discuss here.

Overall, I love the quality of their coffee -- they really know their beans and roast them to perfection -- if you check out my list below, you may come to realize there are things we can all do better to reduce, re-use and recycle.

Join me for a trippio soy caramel macchiato in a personal cup below the fold.

DontTaseMeBro

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday November 07, 2007 · 9:20 PM PST

2007/11/07 · 21:20

A story I just came across on CNN left me absolutely gobsmacked. Well diaried by Uncommon Sense here,
the original story concerned a stunt pulled by inept FEMA press officials who staged a news conference during the recent California wildfires, where actual press outlets and journalists were given only a one-way ability to attend by speakerphone (in "listen only" mode), almost no notice, and were not able to ask questions; instead, FEMA staffers posed as reporters for the record. This is from an agency that was trying to show its newly reorganized self after missteps and fumbles from Katrina.

According to the story, FEMA completed a review of this false press conference, and now Aaron Walker, press secretary for FEMA, has resigned, to take the fall.

What really stunned me was Michael Chertoff's comment about the incident, here below.

Newer
Older

RSS

My Daily Starbucks, consumer waste, and a good buzz

Another Heckuva Job at FEMA: Press secretary resigns