{"id":1666,"date":"2005-10-05T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/10\/05\/take-the-starbucks-challenge\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T12:16:00","slug":"take-the-starbucks-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/take-the-starbucks-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the Starbucks Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
CityHippy<\/a> and greenLAgirl<\/a> have joined forces to present the Starbucks Challenge. The idea: find out if Starbucks is serious about its commitment to selling fair trade coffee:<\/p>\n According to its own policy<\/a> (PDF), Starbucks<\/a> will make fair trade coffee for you, any day of the week, in the 23 countries it is licensed to including: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the U.K. and the U.S.<\/p>\n But just how easy is it to get a fair trade coffee in a Starbucks in one of those countries?<\/p>\n We aim to find out.<\/p>\n Join the challenge:<\/p>\n 1) Simply visit your local Starbucks and ask: “Could I get a cup of fair trade coffee?”<\/p>\n 2) Tell us what happened next. Was it hard or easy to get a cup? You can see our first posts here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m on board, and I hope you’ll join in, also. I think I’ll have to wait until the weekend, though — in Jefferson City, the only Starbucks is in Barnes & Noble… I don’t know if those count. On the other hand, though, my older step-daughter works for Starbucks. I’ll see what kind of inside info I can get…<\/p>\n Categories: starbuckschallenge<\/a>, cityhippy<\/a>, greenLAgirl<\/a>, fair trade<\/a>, coffee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CityHippy and greenLAgirl have joined forces to present the Starbucks Challenge. The idea: find out if Starbucks is serious about its commitment to selling fair trade coffee: According to its [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n