Top interior consultants will tell you that painting the walls of a restaurant green risks a certain queasy factor in dining ambience. Not so at Progress Coffee, where lime walls complement the generous sunshine streaming through the coffeehouse's many windows. The green is also a fitting symbol. The conscientious eco-practices of Joshua and Sarah Bingaman, owners and Okie transplants (via the Mission in San Francisco – danged left coasters), started with a focus on green-building principles in the rehabilitation of the old World War II-era warehouse and continues each day with the use of biodegradable cleaners and low-energy compact fluorescent lightbulbs (when the natural sunlight isn't totally illuminating the space). And of course, there's the delectable menu, chock-full of options organic, vegetarian, and vegan. Mmmm, vegan. Do not get us started on the vegan peanut-butter cups. They aren't green. But they are very delicious.
