August 2009
5 posts
July 2009
23 posts
The Columbus Dispatch : Coating on coffee cups... →
Panel of Experts
I spoke today with Janate (That’s the name on my receipt at least! I’m new at this, don’t judge me!) at Cafe Rosso to set up a time to meet and discuss the inventory and customer behaviors at her cafe. Hopefully I’ll get some numbers to help me determine how much waste students, staff, and faculty produce as a result of drinking coffee at Cafe Rosso. This should be a figure...
EcoTip: Coffee cups - spilling the beans :... →
“With energy you’d have to use the ceramic cup 640 times before it would equal a polystyrene cup and 294 times to equal a paper/cardboard one. With air pollution it takes 1,800 uses to beat the polystyrene and 48 to thrash the paper/cardboard. Likewise you would have to drink 126 and 99 cups respectively for the ceramic to compete with polystyrene and paper/cardboard on the waste...
Starbucks Honored for Recycled-Content Cup |... →
“Developing the recycled-content cup is just one of the company’s environmental initiatives. A major participant in the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, Starbucks offers customers a ten-cent discount for using a re-usable commuter mug, generating a strong, loyal base of customers who practice waste prevention. In 2004, customers used commuter mugs 15.1 million times, avoiding 655,000...
Achieving Sustainability: Seriously, enough with... →
Let’s say you work in an office building and on the way to work everyday you stop in at your local Coffeepeetbucks for a nice cup of Java. Generally speaking they’ll give you a single cup, with one of those sleeve thingies and a nice plastic lid. With any luck you’ll at least recycle all these products, but the vast majority of them, Starbucks annual cup use alone is 1.5...
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Research Notes
For the record, I love the SF State Library system. I’ve used and abused it pretty much non-stop for the last year.
Books aren’t going anywhere. I don’t care how cool Alexis’s Kindle is! (just kidding i’m the jealous type) I like holding huge books with big full color photos of furniture and sketches. For my own sake of keeping track of what I’ve got -...
Starbucks Will Use Cups With 10% Recycled Paper →
Statistics on Starbucks Coffee cups.
Ask Pablo: The Coffee Mug Debacle - ceramics... →
How Do You Step Out of the “Disposable” Coffee Cup... →
Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats | Video... →
Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
“A ceramics professor comes in on the first day of class and divides the students...”
– Mike Arauz, referencing Bill Buxton’s book Sketching User Experiences to encourage little projects and iterative experimentation. (via somethingchanged) (via delayprocrastinate)
June 2009
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