Last week McDonalds announced that beginning early 2009 they are going to be using  environmentally certified coffee at its Australian and New Zealand locations.
The coffee is certified by the  Rainforest Alliance.  All coffee sold by the company (in Australia and New Zealand) will be certified by the group.

I was reading through some things on the Internet and came across an intriguing article, entitled,Buying Green Masks Reality. I read the article with great interest, and finally, with more agreement than I had at first thought I would.
You see, just buying green is not going to fix problems. It is not going to change the excessive spending habits that are crushing American families. It is not going to change the fact that on rainy days many of us drive to our mailboxes at the end of our driveways so we don’t get wet. It …read more

 
I have been using gold filters in my coffee and tea things for years. I like them alot because, well, I am cheap. They last for a really long time, and I hate paying money for coffee filters all the time. Plus, with as much coffee as we drink we probably would cause the deforestation of the entire pine forest in East Texas. In a week.