5 days ago ... Everything about sustainable coffee: birds, beans, biodiversity, eco-friendly coffee claims (Bird-Friendly, shade-grown, organic, Fair Trade) ...
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Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality recognizes Rainforest Alliance certified coffees, highlighting the linkage between sustainable farm management practices and cup quality. There are two annual cuppings and awards, divided by geography. In December, coffees from the southern hemi...
Caribou Coffee’s new owners: killing the brand? April 10, 2013 Caribou Coffee, which sources all its beans from Rainforest Alliance certified farms , was acquired by the Joh. A. Benckiser Group (JAB), a private German holding company, in December 2012. Earlier in 2012, JAB acquired Pe...
McDonald’s makes substantial commitment to coffee sustainability March 19, 2013 McDonald’s Corp. recently announced that their North American operations will be investing $6.5 million over the next 4.5 years to provide technical assistance to Guatemalan coffee farmers to increase thei...
The high cost of K-Cups and pods There are two reasons people give for using single-serve coffee: convenience and price (the rationalization for the latter is that otherwise too much coffee from a pot is thrown away and wasted). Here is the straightforward truth about what you are pay...
I was once active in orchid growing and writing for the American Orchid Society, so when I read about an orchid discovered with a coffee connection, I was naturally interested. This orchid was discovered in 2002 in the Cerro Candelaria Reserve , a nearly 3000-ha area protected through...
Nestlé is the world’s largest food company, with 2011 sales of $94 billion. Some of the most popular of their many coffee brands are Nescafé, Nespresso, and Taster’s Choice. The company buys upwards of 850,000 tons of coffee annually, of which less than 1% is eco-certified . Nestlé’s ...
I started this five years ago: I was curious about the variety of coffees I consumed, and particularly about how much I spent on coffee since price seems to be such a driving force when consumers are faced with choosing between cheap coffee and slightly higher priced certified/sustain...
coffee brands are owned by just a few large multinational companies. These companies buy most of the world’s coffee as a commodity, and strive for profit over sustainability. These companies have been the drivers of low coffee prices at the expense of habitat, biodiversity, and farmer...
