Favorite Green Places: Birdbath Bakery
By Jenn | December 4, 2009
Here’s this weeks entry for our Favorite Green Places series:
This is the kind of green place we can get behind– carefully considered from top to bottom, Birdbath Bakery in NYC is about as green as a business can get. Talk about tiny choices– Birdbath has made them all… combined, they make for one conscious joint:
“We’ve built a bakery with walls made of wheat. And cups made of corn, which are biodegradable. The countertop display and shelves are made from 100% recycled paper- a remarkable new material. We are wind-powered. Our paper bags have no wax lining because wax is petroleum and we’re reducing our use of it in every form. Our floor is reclaimed wood from Pennsylvania: no new trees were cut down for us to have exquisite lumber, and relatively little energy was needed getting it to New York. The stains and sealers for the wood are water-based. The paint- indoor and outdoor- is non-toxic and made in a factory that uses low-energy, gravity-fed machinery. The front door has been in use since at least 1937, and the tin ceiling may be older than that. The light fixtures are vintage and the light bulbs are long-lasting energy savers. We bake in our East Village location in Manhattan and deliver to our West Village shop by bicycle-driven cargo rickshaw. The pastry is made only from organic flour procured east of the Mississippi, along with organic sugar and organic butter and organic chocolate and organic oats and organic raisins and organic walnuts. Honey is made two hours outside of the city; the organic coffee is roasted about the same distance away. Milk and cream served in the store come from a family farm just north of Manhattan and the entire process from milking the cows to bottling takes place on that farm. We compost used coffee grounds every day. We offer a 25% discount if you arrive by bicycle- or skateboard! Our staff wears custom jackets made from linen, hemp and vintage women’s dresses from the ’50s.
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Wow, this place sounds perfect. If every business used this place as a model of inspiration, we would be living in a new world. I hope they do well!
hope this is in the right spot guys
socrates sculpture park
is my favorite local greenplace to go and i have great memories there ..mickey z (my husband and partner) and i have spent many fun sunny afternoons marveling (and we don’t marvel often: )at the art puppys, and people watching. Its free and the art changes often. There is an amazing energy there (it seems everyone who enters there is in a great mood..) and its free. In the summer, its also a place where free kayaking is offered.