Where We've Been in FY '08

• We reduced total energy use in the Specialty Coffee Business Unit (measured in therms/$1000 net sales) by 13% vs. FY ’07, keeping us on target for our goal of a 10% reduction by the end of FY ’09 as compared to FY ’07.
• With Ceres, our Board of Directors, and our senior management, we discussed current scientific consensus regarding climate change and its impact on business generally and the specialty coffee industry particularly,
  and committed to designing a new enterprise-wide initiative focused on climate change.
• We reduced solid waste (measured as tons of solid waste sent to the landfill / $1,000,000 net sales) in our Specialty Coffee Business Unit by 6.5%, well ahead of our 2% goal.
• We commissioned product life-cycle analyses of our three main package types to quantify their environmental impact and help us drive more environmentally responsible innovation in our processes (i.e. supply-chain logistics, manufacturing, packaging, and/or transport).
• We trained over 30 members of our key Operations staff on the implementation and maintenance of Environmental Management Systems and initiated a gap analysis.
• We finalized plans to install a 100kW photovoltaic array on the roof of our Waterbury, VT, distribution center.
• We expanded our recycling program to include obsolete materials used to package our 10-oz. and 12-oz. bags of coffee.