The interior of the 1951 Coffee Co. in Oakland, featuring a sofa, bar counter and large mural.

Ethical review competition to benefit 1951 Coffee Co.

It’s competition time again on the Green Stars Project! Your mission: Write a review of a business or product that includes a rating for social and environmental impact (on a scale of 1-5 Green Stars). For this round, I want to include a theme: Equality, whether racial, economic, gender or a mix of all three. I’ll give you an example of a Green Stars review … Continue reading Ethical review competition to benefit 1951 Coffee Co.

Racial equality and ethical consumerism. A mural of the words 'Black Lives Matter" painted in yellow on a road in Washington DC, 2 blocks from the White House, pointing to the Washington Monument.

Racial equality and ethical consumerism

Hey Folks. I think we all have different ways of dealing with the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. The first thing for me was to start looking back – to Rodney King in LA, 1991, Oscar Grant in Fruitvale station in Oakland, 2009, Eric Garner in New York, 2014, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, less than a month later. The … Continue reading Racial equality and ethical consumerism