The Giro is over. Basso is back. 21 great days of racing. Todays stage finished at the Coliseum in Verona. This arena is over 2000 years old and the third largest in the world. Formerly home to gladiator battles and that whole lion and christian thing. I guess in a sense, Basso is a modern day gladiator. Long live Basso!

Doesn’t seem like we’re seeing much in the news these days about that oil spill – tough to  compete with American Idol, Lost and Dancing with the Stars evidently. Come on people, wheres the outrage?

10 Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the disaster, and nine other shocking, depressing facts about the oil spill.

1. Oil rig owner has made $270 million off the oil leak

2. BP has a terrible safety record

3. Oil spills are just a cost of doing business for BP

4. The Interior Department was at best, neglectful, and at          worst,complicit

5. Clean-up prospects are dismal

6. BP has no real cleanup plan

7. BP is sequestering survivors and taking away their right to sue

8. BP bets on risk to employees to save money — and doesn’t care if they get sick

9. Environmental damage could even include a climatological catastrophe

10. No one knows what to do and it will happen again

Daniela Perdomo is a staff writer and editor at AlterNet. Follow Daniela on Twitter. Write her at danielaalternet [at] gmail [dot] com.

Daniela Perdomo is a staff writer and editor at AlterNet. Follow Daniela on Twitter. Write her at danielaalternet [at] gmail [dot] com.

You may be thinking “Incense and Peppermints” right now, but we’re talking about the new microlot Costa Ricas.

The Costa Rica microlots have finally arrived at the warehouse.  We bought two of them, and they are amazing coffees.  The first, “La Pira” natural, will be at the roastery next week and should be available for your order the week of June 7th.  We have a few preliminary tasting notes: “strawberry fields, wild berry and graham fragrance; tropical fruit, dried blueberry, fruit loops flavor; a wild a fruity natural, sweet with good acidity and body.”

It comes from the family farm of Carlos Ureña in the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica.

Many of you know Ben Tobin through his great photography, while others know him through riding bikes. We’ve had the good fortune of getting to know Ben through work, play, shoveling dirt on bike jumps, girlfriends, mutual friends, coffee, beer, hippies and vege burgers! He’s also taught the kids some interesting combinations of dirty words. For Ben, it’s all in a days work. And thats why we love him. Speaking of love, here is his latest. He had to have her made, which will probably be a better thing in the long run. If you’re wondering about how cool a bike Glen at Elephant can build, feast your eyes on this.

I wanted to post this before Jim found out and deleted the picture. I’m worried about a payback. Needless to say, he was rocking the La Marzocco paddle all morning long.

We’ve got lots of pictures to post from the Pop-Up Breakfast, but we’ll start today off with this one.

Check list.

1. Doma T-Shirt

2. Rubber gloves

3. Spatula

4. Potatoes.

I must say these are not the most exciting of shots… but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

DOMA coffee bean chaff is being utilized at the Shared Harvest Community Garden Compost and also at the Roots CSA Compost. Sweet!!!!

Thanks a bunch for donating the coffee bags for the Roots Pursuit event.

Korrine R

Yes, please. What a great Saturday. David, Erika and Lydia rocked the Pop-Up. It was an excellent turn out and a beautiful morning to go with it. Unofficial count was 91 breakfasts with a handful of folks just coming by for coffee. Wow. It certainly shows the possibilities, doesn’t it? Oh yeah, the food and coffee were awesome.

Thanks everybody.

The menu for the Pop-up breakfast has been released…we’re getting ready at Doma.  Click the link to find out more.

Breakfast_Menu

Honestly, these folks say it better than we ever could. Remember, say it, don’t spray it.