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Another Reason to Love Cake

Posted by Jeannette Kimmel on November 1, 2007
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It’s no secret that anything chocolate makes us giddy, but green chocolate really puts IT in a state of ultimate bliss.

D.C. sweets store Cake Love (founded by the Food Network’s Warren Brown) recently joined other local businesses in the District and switched over to 100 percent wind power. The businesses joined with Rockville, Maryland-based Clean Currents, a company offering low-cost green energy to metro-area businesses around the U.S.

Be sure to try cake flavors like Neil’s Hat Trick (dark and white chocolate, vanilla buttercream, fresh raspberries glazed with chocolate ganache) or Pumpkin Head, a pumpkin butter cake with cream cheese icing and cinnamon, a perfect autumn treat. Vegan or gluten-free Green Label items are also delightfully delicious.

Check out one of their locations in D.C., Silver Spring, Maryland, and Shirlington, Virginia.

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  1. Bill Bronrott
    November 25, 2007, 5:03 pm

    In addition to Cake Love going green through Clean Currents, the Residence Inn Capitol by Marriott recently collaborated with Clean Currents to organize a new and innovative program that offers the hotel’s guests the option of greening their energy use. The “Green Your Stay” program allows guests to pay a small premium to purchase renewable energy for their hotel room. The two companies measured the hotel’s annual energy use and developed the program whereby the Marriott will purchase Wind Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from Clean Currents (www.cleancurrents.com) for each customer that elects to green his or her stay. Earlier this year, the hotel started off-setting 50 percent of its electricity use with green power purchased through Clean Currents. The Residence Inn Capitol by Marriott (www.marriott.com/wascp) is implementing several green measures beyond electricity: 99% fluorescent lighting in the hotel; water-saving laundry processes with fewer chemicals; digital motion-sensing HVAC systems in each guest suite; and an in-hotel recycling program for operations and guests.