I turned 10 years old in 1996. That was a good year. Growing up in the suburbs of Atlanta meant that I was lucky to experience a local Olympics. That was also the year that Tiger Woods became a professional golfer. The Nintendo 64 launched that year, and any of my friends who got one immediately moved up a rank or two in my book.勇敢的心殴打阿波罗13for the best picture Oscar. And it was also the year in whichStarbucks opened its 1,000th store。

到1997年底，星巴克拥有1,412家商店。然后到2000年底3,501。2003年，他们达到了7,225。到2006年底，我20岁那年，星巴克在全球拥有12,440家商店。因此，基本上，我在星巴克占领世界的十年中成年。

这确实是显着的增长，它提供了一些数据来支持我所知道的。星巴克在美国，然后在世界上成为一种文化影响力。好像他们的标志性绿色和白色标志在每个大城市的每个街区都弹出。哎呀，Dreamworks甚至在2004年的电影中开了个玩笑史莱克2。当一个巨型姜饼人威胁法尔巴克在遥远的王国中，受惊的顾客从商店里跑了出来，穿过街对面，进入了……另一个法国。

您能猜出我从星巴克从星巴克订购了多少杯咖啡吗？一。那是2002年左右的时间，我正在约会（想到高中约会很奇怪）。我认为我应该在一家咖啡店喝咖啡，所以我盲目地订购了焦糖Macchiato。这让我在整个夜晚让我感到恶心，所以我从咖啡中回来了十多年（现在回顾过去，可能是33克糖使我生病了，而不是单次浓缩咖啡）。

After meeting my now-wife though, I gave coffee another try and got hooked. As is the case with many of you, coffee is a part of our morning routine at home. For me, it is always black, and for Chantel it is always mixed with stevia and a creamer of some sort. Our morning coffee serves both a practical and spiritual purpose - it wakes us up, while also offering a ritual that centers us in something positive as the day begins. I’ve even become a coffee snob over the years, developing a preference forsingle origincoffees with the自然处理方法。

很明显，我非常亲切。但是我们很少听到的是咖啡如何带来环境成本。现在，您的想法可能会立即进入每年丢弃数十亿杯咖啡杯，这绝对是一个问题。但是具体来说，我想谈论喝咖啡本身的碳足迹。

Late last year,a study was releasedon the carbon footprint of conventional coffee production compared to more sustainably produced and transported coffee. The study showed that one kilogram (kg) of conventional green coffee (meaning before it is roasted) produces 15.33 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). For sustainably produced coffee, which uses fewer agrochemical inputs and is transported via cargo ship rather than airfreight, only 3.51 kg of CO2e are produced. That is a 77% reduction.

To give you a sense of how coffee shakes out against other agricultural products, here is我最喜欢的图形之一。It shows coffee has roughly 17 kg of CO2e per kg of coffee (roughly consistent with the conventional coffee number in the study I linked). That places it at 6th on the list of most carbon-intensive agricultural products.

That’s the best data I can give you. Now what do I think we should do about it? I’m not asking you to stop drinking coffee - that would be about the most hypocritical thing I could say. Rather, here are some suggestions. If you have a local coffee shop that sources sustainably produced coffee, please support them (that doesn’t mean Starbucks is to be avoided at all costs - they are far from perfect, but they are at least注意碳问题）。如果您喜欢拿铁或使用某种奶精，请尝试避免牛奶并选择植物性牛奶（我们最喜欢的是燕麦牛奶）。而且，尽可能地尝试在家中喝杯咖啡 - 这有助于减少从开车到商店的碳排放量，并限制使用这些一次性杯子。

And for all of you other coffee addicts out there - cheers! Here’s to a lower carbon cup of joe.

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