Starbucks is not local enough, not sustainable enough, and too expensive to continue as the coffee supplier for the Oregon Convention Center, Jeffrey Blosser, the center’s executive director, tells Seattle Weekly today. Portland Roasting Co. instead will step in and pick up the $400,000 contract that will see the center’s two Starbucks stores gutted and remodeled with the PRC brand.”There were areas where we were concerned: They [Portland Roasting Co.] have compostable cups, Starbucks doesn’t. And the roasting of [PRC’s] beans is about 12 blocks from here. They also have electric carts and electric cars. Plus the cost is less. For us it meets our sustainable message. Starbucks doesn’t.”Apparently it’s hard to argue with a company like PRC that just teamed up with the Specialty Coffee Association of America–the largest coffee trade association group in the world–to create an online coffee-industry tracking program that monitors the java trade on a worldwide scale in an effort to make it more sustainable. Starbucks? Yeah, they’re still working on that whole recycling-their-cups thing. Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.