It’s easy to want to grab the packet of Splenda in a pinch, but the sweet substitutions that are common to your coffee are typically made up of pure chemicals (some that have been debated-but-linked with cancer in laboratory animals!). And these chemicals are also typically packed in paper pouches, we might add.

One greener sugar option is raw “turbinado sugar” which is made from evaporated cane juice. This sugar stays brown in color as it skips the bleaching process, and therefore doesn’t require the use of bone char, used to whiten types of refined sugars. Ready to green your sweetening, but counting calories? The guilt of the 15-calories-per-teaspoon that real raw sugar has shouldn’t be felt once you take the stairs over the elevator, but it’s okay if you’re feeling lazy: try a noncaloric option called stevia, a sweetener made from an originally grown herb in South America.