On Dining: Socially conscious coffee co-op hits Ballard

On Dining: Socially conscious coffee co-op hits Ballard

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Another sip of social consciousness has quietly slipped into Ballard in the form of the countrys first retail cafe operated by Equal Exchange, the Massachusetts-based cooperative specializing in fair-trade coffee, tea and chocolate. The Equal ...



Coffee and community together at Stardoughs

Eureka Times-Standard - BLUE LAKE -- Stardoughs is the newest business in Blue Lake and owners Diana and Dale Hudson are whipping up more than coffee and good food. The Hudsons have spent several years of their lives in far away places like Fiji and China but they are not ...



At a coffee shop near you: Mitch Alboms latest on life and death

San Diego Union-Tribune - Albom, the award-winning sports columnist, radio host and sometime musician who writes best sellers on the side, comes across readers of his books almost everywhere he goes. They approach him at airports, stores and on the street. ?And within a ...



Boost in caffeine, sleeping pills usage

Newsday - As the options to keep you awake grow -- be it more coffee shops or the energy drinks flooding the market -- drug manufacturers are raking in big bucks so that you arent up all night. Younger people may be more susceptible to that push and pull ...



INTERVIEW-Global warming could kill Uganda coffee

Reuters - KAMPALA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A rise in average temperatures of just two degrees centigrade would wipe out coffee in Uganda and other east African countries that depend on the crop as a key export, a climate expert said on Monday. Scientists at a U.N ...



A Novel Look at College Admissions

US News and World Report - Olivia [an admissions officer at a New York liberal arts college] set the application folder back down on her desk and decided to postpone the decision until she swilled another coffee. Maybe shed leave it to chance; if the coffee pot was half full ...