January 2nd, 2009
Posted by Drew at 8:52 pm
Blue State Coffee has changed its customer-directed donation policy to “5% of sales.” This change will allow us to finance our own organic growth–and, in the big picture, to do more to support local and national progressive causes in more communities.
We will be opening our second and third stores this winter!
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December 23rd, 2008
Posted by Benjamin at 1:02 pm
Blue State Coffee would like to wish you the happiest of holidays.
2008 has been a great year. Thanks to our customers, we’ve given away over $70,000 to progressive local and national causes. We’ve fought and cheered for President-elect Barack Obama. And we traveled to L.A. to co-sponsor the Eco-Gift Festival.
In 2009, we look forward to opening stores in New Haven and the Brown Bookstore. Thank you for being part of our community. Happy holidays, from our family to yours.
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December 12th, 2008
Posted by Benjamin at 5:26 pm
Blue State Coffee meets Los Angeles!
Well, we’re actually blogging from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, Ca. Blue State Coffee is the official coffee sponsor of Eco Gift 2008, a festival for environmentally friendly holiday shopping. Trade in your big-box boredom and shopping mall mayhem for sustainable organic clothing lines, environmentally friendly baby toys, cosmetics, yoga products, and everything else you can imagine.
Blue State Coffee is sharing our coffee, 100% corn travel mugs, USA made clothing and more at our booth. Founders Tom Clark and Marshall Ruben are here, along with the BSC management team Alex and Benjamin, plus a perennial Thayer Street customer who volunteered to fly to sunny Santa Monica just to help us out.
If you’re in the LA area, come and find us.
(That’s me…blogging in the background.)
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December 2nd, 2008
Posted by Benjamin at 2:01 pm
That’s right friends! Next week Blue State Coffee is heading to the City of Angels to participate in the 2008 EcoGift Festival. EcoGift was created to provide holiday shoppers with a conscious alternative to the “the difficult emotions, inconveniences and terrible waste associated with the holidays and holiday shopping.” In addition to shopping, EcoGift will be offering notable eco-conscious speakers & fun live music.
Blue State Coffee looks forward to providing the 15,000 environmentally friendly festival goers with our environmentally friendly coffee and espresso drinks while they shop for such products as: bio-degrable yoga mats, goats milk skin care, and Sri Lankan Elephant Dung paper products. We’re not kidding! For a whole list of exhibitors, click here. We’ll also be selling our US made gear: 100% corn travel mugs, t-shirts, BSC branded coffee cups, and more!
For all the ‘O Pioneers!’, ‘California Girls’, and ‘Surfer Dude’s’, take a break from the beach and head over to the Santa Monica Civic Center December 12th, 13th & 14th for some delicious fair trade coffees and most responsible and exciting shopping event of the season.
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November 25th, 2008
Posted by Drew at 3:45 pm
A few weeks ago I read an article in the New Haven Register about Holy Joe’s Cafe, a project of the First Congregational Church in Wallingford, CT. Since 2006, Holy Joe’s has collected and shipped over 105 tons of coffee to our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. Donations come from individuals, corporations, churches, and other institutions.
Blue State Coffee is proud to support Holy Joe’s Cafe. Our New Haven store will make regular donations.
If you would like to support this extraordinarily important cause, please download the Holy Joe’s brochure here.
All of us, in our day-to-day lives, enjoy the benefits of a good cup of coffee. Let’s do our part to extend that experience to our troops.
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November 25th, 2008
Posted by Alex Payson at 12:22 pm
We will be closing early on Wednesday November 26th at 3PM in preparation for cooking and eating vast quantities of organic, fair trade, and shade grown turkey, etc….
We will be closed on Thanksgiving day, and reopen our usual hours on Friday.
Have a safe and happy holiday!
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November 9th, 2008
Posted by Drew at 2:22 am
…in a profile piece about our good friend, Craig Robinson. We wish Craig all the best, and we miss seeing him in Providence.
CORVALLIS, Ore. — With a hint of 5 o’clock shadow and small bags under his eyes, Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson took the basketball court on Wednesday to start a campaign that is nearly as daunting as the one he just helped to complete.
For the past 20 months, Robinson assisted his brother-in-law Barack Obama’s bid for the presidency. Robinson stumped in Iowa, gave speeches in Washington State and did interviews about his childhood on Chicago’s South Side with his younger sister, Michelle, who is married to Obama.
All that work culminated in one magical Tuesday for Robinson and his family as they ate dinner at the Obamas’ house on election night and later exchanged congratulatory hugs onstage at Grant Park in Chicago.
“I’ve been so busy, I haven’t been able to process it yet,” Robinson said less than 24 hours later as he sat on the bleachers at Gill Coliseum after practice. “It’s wild. I don’t know what to say.”
Now that the Obamas are preparing to enter the White House and Robinson can devote all his energy to his first season at Oregon State, Robinson and the president-elect can debate about whose task is tougher.
The article continues:
Robinson’s players at Brown said he went out of his way to separate politics and basketball. He would walk a block from his office on Hope Street and duck into the Blue State Coffee shop to talk politics. (Jesse Agel, Brown’s new coach, said he would send Robinson a pound of Blue State Coffee, with its “drink liberally” slogan, to congratulate him.)
Read the rest of the profile here, and read an interview with Craig, which also mentions BSC, here.
Also, Craig spoke at Blue State Coffee for a “Barack the Mic” event last year. See it here.
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November 5th, 2008
Posted by Drew at 1:52 am
Blue State Coffee extends the most enthusiastic congratulations to our next President. We’re inspired. We will work our hardest to make sure that Blue State Coffee continues to meet his vision of a caring, hopeful, progressive America. After all, as President-elect Obama suggested tonight, this is just the beginning.
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November 3rd, 2008
Posted by Alex Payson at 11:19 am
You need to vote.
To find out where- check out this Voting location finder.
Exercise your democracy.
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November 2nd, 2008
Posted by kreardon at 9:08 pm
The folks at Politco are saying that there is a chance that Blue State Coffee’s favorite: former senator/customer/republican party rebel/Obama supporter Lincoln Chafee has a shot at becoming appointed the director of the E.P.A. in an Obama administration.
Read the article here.
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