University of San Diego is one of the country’s most environmentally-responsible colleges according to The Princeton Review. The nationally-known education services company selected USD for inclusion in a unique resource it has created for college applicants - “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.”
Developed by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, the “Guide to 286 Green Colleges” is the first, free comprehensive guidebook focused solely on institutions of higher education who have demonstrated an above average commitment to sustainability in terms of campus infrastructure, activities and initiatives.
To view USD's "green" profile and full list of 286 schools, please visit The Princeton Review's " Guide to 286 Green Colleges ."
The "Be Blue, Go Green" motto at USD isn't just words. It's an every day pledge. For the month of April, USD will host or be present at many events that highlight sustainability on and off campus.
Click here for a PDF of all Earth Month events.
The University of San Diego earned third place among California colleges and universities in the per capita recycling category of the 2010 RecycleMania competition. This year’s ranking was an improvement on USD’s 5th place rank for 2009, and placed them 38th in the nation – ahead of prominent schools such as MIT, Notre Dame, Brown, UCSD and the University of Virginia.
RecycleMania is a friendly competition among over 600 US colleges and universities based on recycling and trash data reported over a 10-week period between January and March of each year. Schools are ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. This year participating schools recycled or composted over 84 million pounds of material during the ten weeks, an increase of 15 million pounds over 2009. This year’s grand champion was nearby Cal State San Marcos, which earned the title for the second year in a row.
“USD still has a long way to go,” emphasized Lou Magana, who heads the university’s recycling efforts through its General Services division. “The three R’s of conservation/sustainability are in order of importance: 1) REDUCE the amount of waste we generate where possible, 2) REUSE materials as much as possible, then, as a last resort, 3) RECYCLE as much as possible. That is key to significant improvement.”
SO DON”T FORGET! All plastics ranging from resin codes 1-7 can now be recycled on campus. That’s just about every kind of plastic used for consumer items.
To check out other RecycleMania results, go to their website at: http://www.recyclemania.org
USD students, faculty and staff got together to celebrate Earth Week 2010 from April 16-23. The week of events included something for everyone, from a panel discussion on how to get a green job to live music, games and healthy food at Green Day in the Valley. All events were free, including screenings of movies like “Pedal Power” and “Tapped,” a sunset dinner that included fresh fruits and vegetables from USD’s own sustainable garden, and yoga lessons and massages. Everyone at USD was also encouraged to take a pledge to conserve water, reduce energy consumption, use alternative transportation, and recycle.
Earth Week Video.>>
Installation of USD’s solar power project in partnership with AMSOLAR is scheduled to begin next month. When it is completed this summer, the university will have the eighth-largest solar energy facility on a U.S. college campus, and the largest at a private university.
The solar panels will be installed on top of eleven buildings throughout the campus as part of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). According to the terms of the agreement, AMSOLAR will set up the entire system and then sell the generated electricity back to USD at lower than current rates for the next 25 years. An advantage of the agreement, supported in part by federal stimulus funding, is that USD does not have to invest the historically large amount of capital to purchase a system upfront.
More than 5,000 photovoltaic panels will be placed throughout the campus, generating up to 15% of USD’s power needs through a 1.23-megawatt renewable energy system. A large majority of the panels will not be visible from ground level with the exception of those installed on the West Parking Structure.
An animated aerial mock-up of the solar panels to be installed on campus.>>
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| Len Hering, Vice President of Business Services and Administration, believes USD can become the most sustainable private university campus in the nation by 2025. |
USD recently brought on board Len Hering, a retired Navy admiral, to serve as Vice President of Business Services and Administration. His position involves taking care of the university’s bottom line, but given his many years of experience in sustainability, it would be more accurate to call it USD’s “triple bottom line.” This increasingly common term means looking not only at an organization’s economic profile, but also its ecological and social impact.
Hering spent over a decade of his 32-year career as a strong advocate for sustainability at the Department of Defense and brought significant change to the way the Navy utilizes resources, processes, people and products. His assignments included Commander of Navy Region Southwest, Navy Region Northwest, and Naval Base San Diego; at each he took on the task of increasing efficiency in an ever-decreasing budget environment.
“I was labeled a tree-hugger by some, but that’s not necessarily accurate,” he explained. “With military budgets regularly shrinking, sometimes by as much as 5% a year, the Navy needed to continually improve the efficiency of its operations while complying with environmental legislation and sustainability standards. This included better efforts in recycling, use of renewable energy, reducing pollution, and managing our resources, but also meant changing behaviors and business processes so that people could get more done without working twice as hard. This process produces ‘green’ benefits beyond just time and money because operating in a sustainable way has an effect on every part of life.”
Looking for ways to improve the triple bottom line yielded some impressive results at the 12 major installations under his command in the Navy’s southwest region. Hering helped the Navy install renewable energy facilities that generate thousands of kilowatts of clean power, including over 1,200 kilowatts of solar power in San Diego alone, as well as wind energy on San Clemente Island and San Nicolas Island and geothermal sites at the China Lake and Fallon bases. In three years the Navy also saved a billion gallons of water through smart landscaping and conservation, diverted 136,000 tons of materials away from landfills, and used biofuel in more than half of its work boats, vehicles and equipment. His efforts also included establishing two Federal Networks of Sustainability and the San Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership, constructing LEED-Gold certified buildings, developing a sustainable interior showroom that promotes green office furnishings and products, and protecting sensitive ecological and cultural sites.
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| Hering promoted the installation of hundreds of photovoltaic power systems while Commander of Navy Region Southwest, including this 800 kw solar carport on Coronado. |
“The Navy transfers millions of gallons of fuel in the San Diego region each year,” he noted, “but we were able to reduce the amount to less than what is spilled in a single weekend by recreational boaters in San Diego’s marinas.”
Hering plans to apply his experience with sustainability to the University of San Diego, and is working on a strategic plan that he expects will help USD become the most sustainable private university campus in the nation by 2025.
“By reducing the cost of running the university, tuition dollars can be applied more directly to USD’s mission of education,” he observed. “Otherwise we will need to endlessly increase tuition to keep up with increasing operating costs. The new solar power project will make us the number one private university in photovoltaics, and several other projects are underway to decrease USD’s use of water and power. These will save money, increase our efficiency and demonstrate that sustainability is a priority on this campus, but we still do some things inefficiently and have room to improve.”
Hering believes that students will notice how USD is incorporating sustainability into both operations and academics, and in turn make it part of their own lives.
“I’ve been lucky to travel all over in my career with the Navy,” he reflected, “and the United States is the most blessed nation in the world. But we are wasteful and consume too much. This harms our economy and environment, and draws us deeper into the growing global competition for resources and the instability and conflict that it is causing world-wide. Better utilizing our resources has become a critical national issue that needs to be addressed to meet the economic and ideological challenges of the 21st century. As an educational institution, we’re obligated to help our students understand sustainability, not just in terms of individual behavior or university practices, but on many other levels.”
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| Natalie with her winning ping pong ball. |
“All my friends were entering the drawing and kept bugging me to do it too,” she recalled, “but I was skeptical and thought there wasn’t much point since there was no way I was going to win.”
Eventually she gave in and filled out an entry form at a men’s basketball game, one of numerous campus events where students could apply for the free give-away. Then she didn’t think much more about it.
“I was at practice for my intramural soccer team when my boyfriend called to tell me I was a finalist and better get to Jenny Craig Pavilion,” Natalie explained. “You had to be there in person for the final drawing at halftime of the basketball game against St. Mary’s, so I rushed right over. There were about nine other finalists and each of our names was on a ping-pong ball. I couldn’t believe it when my name was on the winning one.”
She also can’t believe the difference in fuel consumption of the new Prius compared to her former car.
“I used to drive an old Nissan Xterra SUV and it seemed like its main job was eating gas,” she admitted. “I filled up the tank at least every week, but I’ve only filled up the Prius twice since I got it. It’s amazing how much less fuel it uses. Before it cost me $30-$40 dollars to fill up, but now it’s less than $20. The first time I put gas in the Prius, I thought there was something wrong because the tank nearly overflowed after pumping for only half a minute or so. I didn’t think it was possible for it to be full already, but because it’s a hybrid, it only has a 9 gallon tank. When I drove it home to Phoenix during spring break to show my family, the difference in fuel economy was unbelievable.”
But that’s not the only way this gift will keep on giving. Natalie plans to drive the car through the end of summer, then sell it to her parents to help fund her semester abroad and have some money left over for savings.
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| Natalie’s new Toyota Prius was donated to USD by the San Diego Toyota Dealers Association. |
In addition to reducing emissions through the Prius, Natalie also makes an effort to be environmentally conscious in other areas.
“My roommates and I recycle, turn off lights we don’t need, and I bring a reusable bag for shopping,” she shared. “I try to do my part, but have become more conscious of sustainability since coming to USD.”
USD Athletics is also trying to do their part and plans to work sustainability awareness into more events in the future and continue to promote the spirit of “Be Blue, Go Green.”
“The San Diego Toyota Dealers Association has been a great partner with USD and we’re truly grateful for the opportunity to give away a Toyota Prius to one of our students,” said Steve Becvar, Associate Athletic Director. “It’s a tremendous relationship because both organizations are committed to sustainability.”
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One approach to eliminating USD’s techno-trash is through a new relationship with Insight Investments, an Orange County firm whose Financial Services and Systems Exchange divisions are on the leading edge of electronics recycling, computer refurbishing, and lease/buyback programs. Their process begins with acquiring off-lease PCs which they wipe according to Department of Defense specification, then update and refurbish them into nearly new machines through a team of A+ certified technicians. Resale prices for large orders range from about $250 for a desktop to $400 for a laptop including a 3-year warranty (Dell and HP certified) and fully-licensed software. The lower cost and repair support makes their products popular with K-12 schools, small and medium businesses, and a growing number of colleges and universities. Insight Investments also leases new PCs, Macs, servers, data storage, and most other office technology used in higher education.
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| In February USD staff took a tour of the Insight Systems Exchange facility in Orange County where thousands of personal computers are recycled each year. |
Sales are expected to grow annually by as much as 30%, indicating an increasing acceptance of recycled technology, not only to save money but also to address e-waste issues.
“We have a growing number of higher education clients who specifically ask us about e-waste,” observed Darren Lang, Director of National Sales for Insight Financial Services. “It’s not just how much the lease will cost, but they also want to know how our services can help reduce, reuse and recycle technology so it doesn’t end up in a land fill.”
A percentage of businesses and organizations will always buy new top of the line computers, but others see recycled units as a win-win that helps them stretch their budgets while supporting sustainability.
“Some use technology to keep ahead, some use it to keep up, and some use it poorly,” noted Joe Prochelo, Vice President of ISE Sales. “Our customers typically aren’t those who buy new computers every 6-12 months. The majority is schools or municipal governments that need to upgrade their computers every 3-5 years, or those who have been struggling with severely outdated equipment because they thought they couldn’t afford anything else.”
The University of San Diego recently began leasing its Hewlett Packard PCs and Apple Macintosh computers from Insight Financial Services on a three-year cycle. The equipment is new rather than refurbished, but after the lease term ends, it will be picked up by Insight and reconditioned for further use.
“Given USD’s emphasis on sustainability, it’s important to know that our computers will be recycled after our lease is over,” said Liza Peterson Gary, Budget & Operations Manager for USD Information Technology Services. “Insight Systems Exchange also operates a green facility, provides employment and training for its community, donates equipment to needy organizations, and we’re looking for ways we can work together to recycle even more.”
While USD is addressing e-waste at the institutional level, recycling can still be a problem for computers at home. Check in most garages or storage spaces and you’re bound to find quite a bit of e-waste gathering dust in electronic limbo. USD therefore is sponsoring e-waste recycling events on campus for faculty, students, staff and the community, including the most recent during Earth Week 2010. Contact USD General Services for more information at 619 260-4536 about what to do with your home or office e-waste.
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| USD President Mary Lyons with Steve Hoffmann (L) and George Piantka from NRG Energy at the 2010 Climate and Energy Law Symposium. |
On Friday, April 9th the Energy Policy Initiatives Center and the San Diego Journal for Climate and Energy Law hosted their second annual symposium on campus, bringing together practitioners, professors and regulators to discuss the regulatory instruments created to address climate change. The question, according to keynote speaker and Harvard professor Jody Freeman, was “what instruments, and how best to approach” the problem of climate change as we “restart the energy system and develop a clean energy economy.”
Professor Freeman kicked off three panels that focused on the comparative merits of using a cap-and-trade system or simple carbon tax to decrease U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. USD professors shared the stage with some of the country’s premier private practitioners and government regulators, in an event that allowed the school to show off its esteemed faculty in both the environment/energy and tax fields.
These seemingly incongruous specialties were on full display as the panels worked through the pros and cons of cap-and-trade vs. a carbon tax. It has been understood in the climate change law field that the likely regulatory scheme would be cap-and-trade. However, Professor Lesley McAllister pointed out that the current recession and delay in passing a federal program has led legislators to re-evaluate whether a tax system, or a hybrid regulatory/tax system might prove more productive.
This federal vacillation has created problems for California, as the state attempts to implement its cap-and-trade system while preparing for the as-of-yet undefined federal regulatory scheme. At the same time, the state is trying to implement climate laws alongside traditional environmental laws – all undertaken as the country mires in recession.
“California’s environmental laws have been re-set to a new magnetic North,” remarked EPIC director Scott Anders. California regulators and siting attorneys now have to deal with potentially conflicting state and regulatory systems, as well as balancing the need to limit greenhouse gases against the traditional environmental concerns – water usage and land use controls in particular.
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| (L to R) Ken Alex, V. John White, Jeffrey Durocher, and John McKinsey at the pre-symposium workshop on Siting Energy Projects in California |
The first step to fixing this broken process would be to end the “Just In Time” system of permitting sites, and put them on a ten year time frame so both producers and municipalities can actually plan for their future needs, Geesman said. This would take standardized tax, regulatory and administrative standards – something that is a foreign concept to the energy siting world today.
Symposium attendees on Friday focused much more on the large-scale political and legal concerns of a federal climate law. Professor Freeman, who had just left a White House climate change post, set the foundation. Following her, professors and attorneys first addressed the cap-and-trade option, then the tax option.
The final panel defined their own expectations and desires for such a system. Two professors joined the president of the Environmental Law Institute and a partner from Latham and Watkins to discuss the possibilities and the relative value of each regulatory system. Professor Holly Doremus from Boalt Hall seemed to summarize the panel’s thoughts when she called for a federal program that was like “a windswept pine.”
Unlike the hardened oak that rigidly withstands winds until a strong enough storm destroys it, Professor Doremus remarked, or the willow tree that bends with each small gust, the federal system had to have hard and well-defined rules but also adapt to the conditions that foster it. The system cannot ignore political or scientific developments around it, but like the most effective environmental laws in the past, the climate regulation had to set boundaries that were both strong and flexible – and were a reflection of the times. Just like a pine on a windy ridgeline adapts to its surroundings and learns to lean with the wind, a federal climate regulatory system had to simultaneously reflect and shape its surroundings.
This year was the Symposium’s second year, and was again generously sponsored by Sempra Energy and NRG ENergy.
http://www.sandiego.edu/law/news/calendar_of_events/event_details.php?_focus=34842 or www.sandiego.edu/epic.
In March ten USD faculty from a wide range of departments gave presentations on their intersession trip to El Cercado, a small town in the Dominican Republic where the Catholic Church is providing valuable guidance on sustainable development. The travel immersion seminar, sponsored by USD’s Center for Catholic Thought and Culture, provided a unique opportunity for professors to examine some of the Church’s principles related to mankind and the environment, and see first-hand how they are applied in a real parish.
Like many rural parts of the Dominican Republic, the majority of people in El Cercado depend on subsistence farming, but through support from their diocese, they are thinking more about limiting deforestation, replanting trees to restore the water table in cleared areas, raising organic fair trade produce, and other sustainable practices that balance economic growth with environmental protection. The USD trip therefore not only provided a glimpse of the social, economic and environmental challenges faced by so many of the world’s people, but also how the Catholic Church is serving as a vehicle for identifying needs, coordinating resources, and establishing the basis for cooperation and community.
“The highlight of our trip to the Dominican Republic was the chance to meet locals who were working together with Catholic priests and Peace Corps volunteers on projects to improve their lives while simultaneously reducing their environmental impact,” observed chemistry professor David De Haan. “These poor farmers 'get' climate change and understand the problems caused by deforestation. In response, they are trying to put food on their tables in a responsible, sustainable way. If they can do it, why not us?”
The trip also gave participating faculty some fresh ideas on how to incorporate concepts of sustainability into their curriculum, and the combination of faculty from various disciplines made for “an incredibly enriching dialogue,” said Maria Pascuzzi, professor of theology and religious studies and director of the center. “The seminar was a model of the kind of interdisciplinary dialogue that we need to continue to enable and encourage -- not just once a year for a few faculty, but often,” she noted.
“The seminar was a wonderful opportunity to see what the Catholic Church is doing at the local level in a developing country to improve the lives of the people in a sustainable way,” added Andrew Narwold, professor of economics in the School of Business Administration.
To learn more about USD’s travel immersion seminars, contact the Center for Catholic Thought and Culture at http://www.sandiego.edu/cctc. For more on the trip to the Dominican Republic, contact participating USD faculty: Mary Doak, Andrew Narwold, Ron Kaufman, Tom Reefer, Sue Lowery, Colin Fisher, Lance Nelson, Tara Ceranic, Kristine Ehrich, and David De Haan.
Many global sustainability issues are related to poverty and its persistent stress on people, governments, economics and the environment. The growing success of microcredit, which provides funding and flexible repayment to poor and low-income entrepreneurs, encouraged USD to host the 2nd annual San Diego Microfinance Summit on April 28. The goal of the summit was to highlight the local and international work of San Diego’s microfinance organizations in order to promote collaboration across the area’s microfinance community.
Participants included ACCION San Diego, International Rescue Committee, Opportunity International, La Maestra, Point Loma Nazarene University, Project Concern International, SDSU College of Business Administration and other San Diego organizations that support microcredit lending.
For more on the event visit Inside USD.
On Feb. 9, the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate co-hosted a morning breakfast forum, “Building Greener Communities in the San Diego Region,” along with CleanTECH San Diego, the city of Chula Vista and the National Energy Center for Sustainable Communities.
The forum was held to initiate collaboration between the real estate development and the renewable and energy-efficient power and equipment manufacturing industries to stimulate regional economic development and to assist developers and builders in meeting new state environmental mandates.
The forum comes on the heels of recent research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and California Energy Commission, which concluded that the use of renewable and energy-efficient power and building equipment technologies and advanced site design features could substantially reduce the energy consumption and emissions of large-scale development projects in California.
Attending were: real estate developers, builders, lenders, appraisers and brokers, as well as renewable and energy-efficient power and building equipment manufacturers, energy services providers and related trade associations. The forum provided professionals in these industries the opportunity to learn more about the green community development movement and to obtain a set of valuable reference guides derived from the recently completed research.
Panelists included Darren Morgan of Cushman & Wakefield, David Schnaars of Solar Turbines, Nick Lee of The Paul Design Group, Denny Stone from the city of Chula Vista, Lou Galuppo from the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and Doug Newman from the National Energy Center for Sustainable Communities. The panel was moderated by Jim Waring of CleanTECH San Diego.
Panelists agreed that there is much work to be done to increase marketplace adoption of the green technologies available.
“There definitely needs to be an education blitz among the commercial real estate sector,” said Morgan. Added Lee: “People will talk about green, but they’re not always willing to pay for it. You need to have a strong political will to overcome the hurdles.”
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| Ryan Brothers Coffee is a family business (L to R): parents Helena and Tom Sr., brothers Harry, Carmine and Tom. |
The most widely available organic and fair trade agricultural product is coffee, so a good source of information is Ryan Brothers, a local company that imports, roasts and sells a variety of organic and free trade coffees as well as organic teas and cocoa. Ryan Brothers supplies USD dining services, so if you’ve had a cup of coffee or an iced chai on campus, then you’ve already enjoyed their products. Brothers Harry and Carmine are also USD alumni.
First, some definitions are needed. Organic fruits and vegetables are produced without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers so they induce less ecological stress and support improved water quality, topsoil retention, and biodiversity. Some are locally grown, others are imported; some come from small farms, others from large farms and co-ops. Fair trade agricultural products all are imported from developing countries and aim at helping smaller producers. They usually cost more because the retail price helps support better working conditions, community development, environmental sustainability, market stability, higher profits for farmers and decent wages for workers. Fair trade products generally are all organically grown, but not all organically or sustainably grown imports are necessarily fair-trade certified.
So what’s the story with coffee, the first product to be labeled “fair trade” and by far the largest segment of the fair trade industry? Having spent the last 15 years building a coffee business from the ground up, the Ryan Brothers have plenty of first-hand experience.
“Coffee grows only in tropical regions, and specialty or gourmet coffee is primarily made with the arabica species of coffee,” explained oldest brother Tom Ryan, who buys green unroasted coffee from around the world. “Good coffee comes from plants grown in the shade of a higher canopy of trees, and the best arabica comes from small plantations or farms where they have been raising coffee for generations. These aren’t slash-and-burn farmers, and they can’t afford expensive chemical fertilizers, pesticides or the equipment you need to use them. Growing organically is the only way they know.”
So practically all the coffee Ryan Brothers buys is organic, although not all is fair trade certified. For growers, there may not be enough demand for fair trade coffee to sell more than a small percentage of their crop under a fair trade label, resulting in the same beans also sold as organic or with no certification at all. In 2009 Starbucks vowed to double its purchase of fair trade coffee, but this represents only about 10% of its total coffee purchases, and fair trade coffee represents only about 1% of the worldwide market. In terms of organic coffee, the US is by far the largest importer with about 40% of global trade.
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| Just a few of the many stamps and certifications that appear on organic and fair trade coffee. |
“One of the newer certifications is the Bird Friendly coffee program of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center,” Tom noted. “Traditional varieties of coffee don’t grow well in direct sunlight, so farmers need to preserve the forest canopy and by doing that they also are helping migratory birds, reducing soil erosion, maintaining a viable water table and supporting biodiversity. Because most coffee growing regions are also in major routes of bird migration, I think it’s a useful certification and I’m seeing it more often on the coffee that I buy. Just because a coffee is labeled organic doesn’t mean it was shade-grown, so consumers should look for additional certification on the packaging like the Bird Friendly logo or others that indicate a higher level of sustainability.”
While demand for sustainably grown coffee has risen rapidly, both because of quality and environmental consciousness, coffee farmers have been slower to go through the inspection and certification processes.
“The best coffee comes from small plantations at higher altitudes in remote mountainous regions,” Tom observed. “These are down-to-earth rural people and some don’t understand that having their farm inspected and their coffee certified can make a big difference. Others are suspicious of the inspectors or outsiders in general because of their experience with corrupt government and civil war in places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua or Colombia. But participation is gradually increasing.”
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| Coffee growing under a tree canopy -- this traditional method is more sustainable and produces a better quality bean than full-sun cultivation. |
Vietnam is one country where full-sun coffee production has taken over, but the strain typically doesn’t produce high-quality beans. “I got a sample of green Vietnamese coffee and thought I’d see if I roasted it myself, then maybe it would turn out OK,” said Harry Ryan, “but no matter what I tried, it just wasn’t that good. At the same time, while fair trade and shade-grown coffee is superior, you need to roast it properly to bring out its best flavor.”
But supporting eco-friendly farming practices for coffee is only one part of Ryan Brothers’ efforts to promote sustainability. At USD all coffee chaff from roasting and grounds from brewing are composted and used on campus for landscaping, a practice also followed at Ryan Brothers’ two retail locations. To transports their products to USD, Ryan Brothers use empty burlap coffee sacks instead of cardboard boxes. On the social side of sustainability, when they needed a new space, they restored an old building in Barrio Logan for their coffee shop and roasting facility so they could contribute to revitalizing a historical neighborhood rather than leasing space in a strip mall.
“We started this business with a couple of coffee carts, including one at USD basketball games,” recalled Harry. “Today we couldn’t be happier working with USD because that was where it all started for us and because we share a commitment to sustainability. We hope that we’re contributing to the education of USD students on the importance of using organic products and how businesses can be environmentally and socially responsible.”
For more on organic and fair trade coffee, check out a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/organicexports/docs/Market_Organic_FT_Coffee.pdf. For more on Ryan Brothers Coffee, visit their website at http://ryanbroscoffee.com.