A little past 6 in the morning in a small booth in the Tiendesitas shopping area, the heavenly smell of coffee began to waft in the morning air. A few more seconds, and a large crowd of people had already gathered around the Solar Café eagerly awaiting their cup of coffee. And it wasn’t ordinary coffee, mind you. It was coffee made using solar-powered coffee makers, which explained why there were solar panels to the side of the booth.
Serving coffee seemed pretty simple at first. (Or at least way easier than biking until you’re dead tired, especially for someone like me, who doesn’t know the first thing about riding a bike.) Precious, KT and I were pretty confident we could handle everything. After all, how hard could pouring and brewing coffee be? Pretty hard, it turns out. What we weren’t expecting was the size of the crowd. As we served coffee to bikers of all ages, police officers, journalists, and so on, we realized that the crowd was in no way thinning out. Of course, while it got somewhat crazy (imagine lots of people deprived of their much-needed caffeine), it was also nice to see that the people weren’t just after the coffee. They were also asking questions about the solar panels, which conveniently gave us the perfect opening for talking about climate change and clean energy. And I would like to think that they left with more than just a cup of coffee.
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