DEC 05

Hah, love the image. Starbucks has been trying to portray itself as a socially responsible corporate citizen lately, but I'm not sure how accurate their claims are. This would be a great thing for them if they actually started doing it on a large scale.

Turning junk into treasure! This is the right way to go!

Chicken John in San Francisco runs his converted pick up on used coffee grins. It seems like all the solution for our current eco problems are out there if we want it. But the real big issue is will the big Oil, and Car company stop sabotaging people trying to make progress, and maybe even SWITCH to doing things that helps the environment? Do people really need SUVs, or that gas guzzling sports car? Can't we have a better routed & affordable public transportation through out the entire US, so that driving is more of a novelty, than a necessity. What about bicycling? It comes with health benefit of daily cardio-exercise, weight loss, virtually no emission, and an incredibly low chance of a fatal accidents... increased free space from smaller need for parking space.

I think through education, the things to improve our world should become quite obvious. And positive change starts within our daily lives, like bring our cups to coffee shops, bags to grocery store. Once we put aside the DISPOSABLE GOODS mentality, things will already start to look better.

Finally there's a use for that massive franchise of Warm Milk With Foul Sludge In It retailers. They would be useful as shelter when it rains if it weren't for the fact that you'd have to BUY something if you want to hang out there...

Sorry, I'm a tad annoyed after my lapse in judgement yesterday when I actually tried buying something there. *shudders at the thought*

I hope this doesn't mean that car emmisions will start making everywhere smell of coffee.
And will they sell their diesel like their coffee, with wierd names and sich.

Hahahah! Orange Mocha Dieselchino! ^_^

Sounds like the makings of a Starbucks Supercenter: while waiting for your five dollar morning jones, you can swing by the coffee ground cosmetic department for some hair care, exfoliant and cellulite treatment; stroll through the coffee ground home and garden center for fertilizer or ant and flea repellent; hit the household coffee ground section for abrasive cleaner and scratch remover; not to mention filling up with a tank full before heading out the door. Now, ain't that green($$$)?

A. E.
www.aesabo.com

Thanks. for energy biodiesel
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Uhhh, this isn’t news. Brazil has been doing this for years already.

For example, from 2006:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33904