At Espresso Yourself Book Café in Pottstown, customers get the chance to satisfy their caffeine cravings while concurrently lowering the carbon footprint. Rose Itzcovitz stirred through its details in her WFMZ 69 News report.

“Climate change was front and center in a new way this year,” said Twila Fisher, who leads entrepreneurship and social enterprise courses at The Hill School and participates on the board of community advocate Hobart’s Run. “Realizing how bad it’s getting and how unaware a lot of people are about it.”

Together with her students, Fisher started the coffee shop as a nonprofit where everything gets reduced, reused, and recycled. Even the coffee grounds and tea bags are sent out to the school’s community garden to be composted.

According to Fisher, who also directs Community and Economic Development at the school, the vision was inspired by discussions with her students about the planet.

And while the coffee shop does hire workers, students run the business end of the shop. In return they get paid in credits.

“It’s just become a really fun place where students get to learn from start to finish how a business is built,” said Fisher.

Read more about Espresso Yourself Book Café at WFMZ 69 News.

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Sustainability in cafes from the perspective of a community near Melbourne, Australia.