Sustainability

At Crema, one of our core principles centers around practicing sustainability and zero-waste. We've outlined the ways that we put these principles into practice in other blogs posts, but we want to shift the focus to what we, as a collective of coffee drinkers can do every day to minimize our waste specifically related to drinking and making the coffee we love so much.  Below, you'll find a handful of practical and easy-to-implement tips for becoming a more sustainably-minded coffee consumer. Here's an overview of what we'll dive into: Choosing ceramic cups in cafes Buying coffee in compostable bags Composting...

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY? Sustainability can mean many different things. The Oxford Dictionary says it’s, “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.” Our approach to the sustainability topic has evolved over the years through reading Wendell Berry, and other books like Cradle to Cradle and Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money, and learning from coffee producers and friends in our community.  We want every aspect of Crema to continually thrive — for us, that is made possible by establishing a strong sense of economic vitality, environmental commitment, and social responsibility. WHAT DOES SUSTAINABILITY LOOK LIKE FOR...

You may have noticed that we care a lot about our environmental impact and sustainability. What you may not know is that our passion was originally inspired by our coffee producers! On one of our first origin trips we saw that they care a lot about the environment and the way their practices affect it. They often go the extra mile, even reusing their coffee pulp and repurposing water to grow grass for cows. Their passion for sustainability fueled ours and years later, here we are: a zero waste business always looking for ways to improve our impact, both locally...

There’s something pretty much everyone on the planet has in common. And it’s that Crema coffee is their favorite. (Kidding; that would be a weird thing to have a blog post about.) All jokes aside, let’s talk about the real reason we’re here. We all have a carbon footprint.   As we move throughout our day, many of our actions (car/air/train travel, using non-renewable electricity, food production/waste, etc.) emit greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. The total amount of these emissions is known as our carbon footprint. While each of us can make changes to decrease our carbon output, it’s...