Share and Voice: Coffee!!!!!!

~Hellllooooo again everybody! So as I sit at the Coffee Shop on campus, my mind began to wander(it happens quite often-imagine JD from Scrubs and his little daydreams, and that's what I do). After I thought about random things, I thought about how much coffee I drink....I'm addicted to the stuff, and I'm not afraid to say it(Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm a Coffee-holic). So as I think about it, I begin to think if there is an 'environment friendly' coffee, and coffee related products. I had never thought about it before, and I decided to investigate. Not to this extent, but just doing some investigating online. These are my findings.

~About.com has a great little site about ways to be more considerate of the environment when making the sweet java. It went over 5 main points...

1. Buy Organic Coffee - I have done this occasionally, but not on a regular basis. I'm happy with Dunkin' Donuts bags of French Vanilla coffee.....I smiled just thinking about it
   
2. Don't use paper filters - Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought about this. I use paper filters. They come in packs of like 200, for about 4-5 bucks. The site suggest using a reusable filter, which I am now going to look into.
   
3. Reuse old coffee grounds - It suggest using them in a garden for fertilizer or ant repellent. I don't have a garden, but in the summer we did have a huge ant problem. So this is now something I am going to look into.
4. Don't use bottled water - The point they are making is in relation to the plastic used for bottled water. Since I don't buy bottled water, this isn't an issue.
5. Brew your own - Here the point they are trying to make is if you go to your local coffee shop and get a paper cup each time, your not being smart. Now I'll admit, I do this a couple days a week. But on the other days, I brew at home. I've been trying to stop going to the coffee shop on campus for about 4 years now. It's just so darn accessible! And it's less than 2 bucks for plain old coffee, it's hard for me to say no. What I need to start doing more is brewing at home and bringing it in a mug to campus.
   

~Another helpful site was CoffeeReview.com. It has pretty much every type of coffee on there, and has a lot of helpful information. The advanced search tool was the best, because you can search for organic coffee and it will tell you available coffee that you may like.


So anywho, those are the sites that I found the most helpful. So if any of you out there are avid followers of the Bean like I am, I hope this information helped ya!