• Sustainability

Starbucks Cups: Testing a New One But Don’t Bring Your Own

• #COVID19
• coffee
• compostable
• coronavirus
• cups
• recycle
• Starbucks
• sustainability

As a result of what they learned in China, Starbucks will not allow people to bring in their own “vessels” to get their cup of joe as a result of the coronavirus outbreak — the “temporary” measure went into effect last week and will remain so for the foreseeable future. 

Why This Matters:  There are times when — particularly with respect to health and safety — single-use plastic items are a necessity.  This coronavirus outbreak is one of those times.

• Sustainability

One Cool Thing: A Big Week for Corporate Sustainability as Starbucks, Taco Bell Step Up

• CSR
• Starbucks
• sustainability

After the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock announced that climate change and sustainability are now its core principles, one more corporate giant is stepping up its climate commitments. Starbucks announced today that it wants to become “resource-positive”: Storing more carbon than it emits, eliminating waste, and providing more clean freshwater than it uses in coffee-growing […]

• Energy

Starbucks to power 360 Texas stores through solar energy

• CSR
• renewable energy
• renewables
• Solar
• Starbucks

Yesterday, Starbucks, Cypress Creek Renewables, and U.S. Bank announced that they are teaming up on a portfolio of solar farms across Texas. As a part of the deal, two solar farms developed, built and now operated by Cypress Creek, one of the nation’s leading solar companies, are providing enough energy for the equivalent of 360 […]