since you asked…

In response to this past Monday Night, after our family finishes this last economy bag o’coffee from Costco, it will be our last.  We will then officially begin buying and consuming coffee in a more just and sustainable way. 

In finding a new alternative, though, I have three criteria that need to be met: it needs to be shade-grown, organic, and Fair Trade certified.  I think each of these covers most of the negative situations in the global coffee world, so hopefully the money we use to purchase the coffee will help alleviate some of the problems and encourage the more positive aspects of the trade. 

“For me, if everything I am saying isn’t lived out, if I’m not in the endless process of learning to live this out with my wife and my kids and my neighbors and my friends, then I have no business going out and spouting off about all of this.” 
- Rob Bell

Thanks for the nudge.