Go Green with Starbucks

There are many ways we can go green and help save the environment. Here's one.

If you are a fan of Starbucks coffee you can contribute to saving the environment by bringing your own tumbler the next time you go to Starbucks for your premium coffee fix.

"Bring Your Own Tumbler Program" has been launched at all Starbucks stores nationwide. This program is designed to help conserve the environment by reducing the use of paper and plastic cups. You get to receive RM2 off the original price.


Image source: Starbucks

Need a Coffee maker for the home?

If you are a coffee-drinker, ever thought about getting your own coffee maker for the home and brewing your own coffee if you don't already own one? There is a wide selection of coffee makers in the market. One of the better brands is the Bunn range of coffee makers. Their coffee-makers are equipped with a new and improved brewing method that will surely enhance your coffee-drinking experience. You day will start right with a perfect cup of coffee every morning of the week.

Why buy a Bunn stainless coffee maker? Bunn brewers brew at a consistent temperature so the flavor doesn't get left behind when water is too cold or coffee becoming bitter when water is too hot. Unlike drip-type brewers, Bunn brewers quickly release all the water at once to create the needed mixing action to evenly extract the ideal flavors from the coffee grounds.

Coffee-drinkers are learning that besides good coffee beans, a good stainless coffee maker (can be a single-cup or multiple-cup brewer) does make a difference in the taste of the coffee produced. A tip here though, use good-tasting water as any “off tastes” in your water will be carried over into your brewed coffee.

If you are a male and not drinking coffee, you might want to start drinking coffee. Results from a Harvard study that followed almost 50,000 male health professionals for more than two decades found that coffee lowers the risk of prostate cancer. The new study shows that six cups a day would result in a 60 percent reduction in risk of aggressive prostate cancer. However, men who drank three cups a day had a 30 percent lower chance of getting a lethal prostate cancer.

Coffee, Tea or...

Though some of us shun coffee, others need that morning fix to start the day. Did you know that coffee has health benefits?

Studies have shown that coffee drinkers at midlife had a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease later in life compared with those drinking little to no coffee. According to another study, those who drank 3-4 cups of coffee per day were 5 times less likely to develop Parkinson's disease. The truth is, coffee is a great beverage with or without an ailment.

Now, looking to buy some good coffee? Here's a site where you can purchase an extensive variety of coffee including the finest Miss Ellie's gourmet coffee, coffee pods and teas. Coffee pod machines too, in fact all things coffee including K-cups, can be found on this wonderful coffee site, www.coffee.org. Need coffee for your office? Coffee.org will help you set up an office coffee program quickly and easily. You just need to contact them for a free quote.

Gift baskets are so versatile for any occasion. If you're wondering what to get for a coffee-drinking friend. Well, wonder no more. A beautifully-arranged coffee gift basket from Coffee.org would be just the ideal gift. (S)he'll be certain to think of you each time (s)he has a cuppa.

Kopi Luwak, anyone?

Coffee. That one single pick-me-up that starts the day right for most of us. It doesn't matter whether you take it black or white, it's a sure way to kick-start your morning.

There is a wide variety of coffee machines to suit every need. The best source is, of course, online. You not only have many choices, you can also get great prices too good to pass up. Dealsdirect is one site you'd want to check out if you are looking for coffee machines and one Italian coffee machine is going for as low as $24.95!

Kopi Luwak, anyone?

Starbucks Coffee, You Like?

Nice montage, don't you think? These are actually all the 30 different types of whole bean coffee beans that are available at Starbucks. Starbucks coffee beans are sourced from all over the world, Latin America, Africa, Arabia and Asia Pacific.



Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 49 countries, including around 11,000 in the United States, followed by nearly 1,000 in Canada and more than 800 in Japan.

Starbucks sells drip brewed coffee, espresso-based hot drinks, other hot and cold drinks, snacks, and items such as mugs and coffee beans. The company also markets books, music, and film. Many of the company's products are seasonal or specific to the locality of the store. Starbucks-brand ice cream and coffee are also offered at grocery stores.

In the 1990s, Starbucks was opening a new store every workday, a pace that continued into the 2000s. The first store outside the United States or Canada opened in the mid-'90s, and overseas stores now constitute almost one third of Starbucks' stores. The company plans to open a net of 900 new stores outside of the United States in 2009, but has announced 900 store closures in the United States since 2008.

International presence of Starbucks stores

Here in Kuala Lumpur, there is a Starbucks in every shopping mall and in busy parts of suburbs outside the city. Is it just the coffee that millions of people patronise the outlets each day?

Whatever it is, like it or not, Starbucks (and places like theirs) are slowly but surely changing the way we live.

In his new book, "Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks", Bryant Simon, a history professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, writes that "while people once were able to find meaningful conversation and debate at libraries, recreation centers and parks, those public spaces have become less available - and less desirable _ since municipal resources are focused elsewhere."

According to Simon, Starbucks has filled that void.

Or has it?

What's the true cost of a Starbucks latte, really? And we are not talking about money.


Sources:
- Starbucks website
- Wikipedia
- The Star

Coffee or Cup

I hope the Tiger Show perked you up some. haha..

Here's something inspirational from an email. You might have come across this but still a good read, a reminder sort of.

It is often said that the happiest people in the world are not those who have no
problems, but those who learn to live with things that are less than perfect. Agree? Read on..


A group of graduates, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work andlife.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the simple and cheap ones.

While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

* Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee.
* In most cases, it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... Then you began eyeing each other's cups.

* Now consider this:

- Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.
- They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
- Sometimes, by concentrating on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee we have been provided with. Enjoy your coffee!."

* The happiest people don't have the best of everything.
* They just make the best of everything."

1. Live simply.
2. Love generously.
3. Care deeply.
4. Speak kindly.
5. Leave the rest to God. (??)

You are the miracle, my friend;
Your life either shines a light OR casts a shadow!
Shine a light & Enjoy the Coffee!!!