Through Google Maps Mania I came across The Starbucks Challenge. It’s an effort to use the web to hold Starbucks to their promise of providing fair trade coffee at the customers’ request.
The idea is that you request a cup of fair trade coffee, and blog about the response you get, posting an appropriately tagged link on del.icio.us. They pull all those postings together, plot them on a map and communicate the results to Starbucks management.
Something to try next time Starbucks is the only option, as it was for us on Thursday (aka Thanksgiving) when all other coffee shops were closed and coffee and WiFi were required.