Carnival of the Green, #15 February 20, 2006
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Green in the City, London , trackbackThis week’s Carnival of the Green is over at Hip and Zen, with as eclectic a collection of Green posts as ever.
The Starbucks challenge, to get FairTrade coffee in Starbucks, often features on the Carnival. I thought I’d give it a go myself today, although I’m not too sure whether it applies to the UK.
I was down on Piccadilly, and the Caffe Nero was filled with smokers - the coffee’s more Italian, but unfortunately so are the tobacco rules. I was fairly sure that our left-pondian cousins at Starbucks wouldn’t stand for that sort of nonsense, so gave them a try. They had FairTrade coffee, but only that yucky stuff in urns, no grounds for an espresso. I tried to get the barrista to explain why, but didn’t get any further than ‘that’s the way it is’. Ho hum. And it seems to be some sort of Starbucks ‘Fair Trade’ mark, rather than the normal one, so I’ve no idea how truly fair traded it was.
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