Green Café Network

love our planet a latté!

Why Coffee Shops?

For starters, almost 60% of American adults drink coffee on a daily basis!

• Within the coffee industry, the specialty coffee industry holds great potential for role modeling a shift toward sustainability, since 27 million Americans a day (15% of our adult population visits specialty cafes daily.
• The approximately 21,400 coffee shops in America use billions of gallons of water a day, tons of electricity and generate massive amounts of solid waste (just food waste accounts for 16% of the solid waste in California’s landfills and paper accounts for 30%).
• Cafés also purchase huge quantities of paper products, coffee, sugar, milk, and food that are directly tied to critical issues in international trade as well as ecological effects from the timber industry, agriculture (and the uses of pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), and dairy industry (uses of hormones, chemicals, etc.).

Considering that coffee shops have a tremendous impact on the planet and they influence a huge number of Americans each day - Green Café Network is dedicated to fulfilling the potential of coffee shops to become catalysts for positive environmental and social change.