Sustainability

Monday was Earth Day, and if you’re new around here, you may have noticed that we care a lot about our environmental impact. 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 fueled ours and years later, here we are - a zero waste business always looking for...

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 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 that look like? ECONOMIC VITALITY Money is a resource...

We are a zero waste business. To us, this term defines our goal of taking small steps in a more sustainable direction. Over the past several years, we’ve taken steps like composting and recycling 90% of all our waste, buying local, and stocking our store with BPI certified versions of all our single use items. We are excited to announce to you our new next step: retail bags made almost entirely (99%) from plants. We’re calling them our “Next Best Step Bags,” and they make us really happy. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Our new coffee bags are Biotre...

OFFSETTING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT 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...