Do You Caffeinate Here Often?

With so much emphasis put on the slow food movement and eating locally, and I can tell you that I am a firm believer in that, is it possible to cafeinate locally when you live somewhere other than a coffee growing area?  How about tea?

I am really curious about this.

I mean, is this an area where we just ride on our laurels as far as the trade off?  “Oh, I raise my own chickens and goats, so that offsets the coffee I buy from Indonesia”.

Let’s face it, even getting green beans is going to mean that those beans are imported from far away places and the footprint they live might not be the size of Maxwell House but it is going to be pretty big.

The other option is to, of course, not drink it.

That seems sort of radical to me.  I am not sure that global warming concerns me enough to stop drinking coffee.  Just being honest, here.

If you buy organically grown, fairly traded coffee is there really more that you can do to make the earth a better place, short of, you know, the unthinkable?  Coffee Celibacy?

Thoughts?

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