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On the weekend, I stopped at a bakery/cafe that I had never been to before. I was in the neighborhood, in a hurry and needed a coffee. They had several airpots with different blends of the same brand of coffee. The large of the fair trade coffee blend was 40 cents more than that of [...]
Today I’d like to talk about making a really good cup of fair trade coffee at home. There’s only a few variables (coffee, water, coffee maker, and possibly a grinder), so let’s look at the importance of each. Oddly enough, probably the most important factor is probably the easiest to change cheaply. A cup of [...]
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Day 7 of Fair Trade month mentions that all of Dunkin’ Donut’s espresso drinks are Fair Trade Certified. The company has served 100% Fair Trade Certified espresso since 2003. From fairtrademonth.org: As you can imagine, this has made quite an impact: To date Dunkin’ Donuts has purchased more than 20 million pounds of coffee from [...]
Day 2 of Fair Trade month offers a wonderful story about Luis Adauto de Oliveira, a fair trade coffee farmer from Brazil. “Fair Trade has given us the ability to grow coffee the way it should be grown – sustainably, organically and with great concern for quality. Our families are fed, our children are in [...]
Here are some quick stats to chew on with your morning fair trade coffee. In 2008, the U.S. imported about 87 million pounds of fair trade coffee. Global imports total about 150 million pounds. Considering Starbucks, the world’s largest bean purchaser, purchases about 380 million pounds of beans a year (of which only 18 million [...]
October is fair trade month according to Transfair USA. Today is Spread the Word! Make sure that all of your friends and family members know that it’s Fair Trade Month: Post “Happy Fair Trade Month! Learn more at www.fairtrademonth.org” in your Twitter status or Facebook status. Also: Become a fan of Fair Trade Certified [...]
Imagine a national coffee day?! I didn’t realize this until I read an article this morning about Starbucks new instant coffee. Please tell me its similiar to April Fools. I love coffee as much as the next person, but to have a national coffee day is stretching it, but for Starbucks to put out an instant coffee [...]
For those of you looking for a real life account of how the fair trade coffee process works and affects people, here is a brief story about fair trade in action. In the coffee growing mountains of Columbia, there is a co-op of 270 farming families called APCO (Asociación Pequeños Caficultores de Ocamonte) that was [...]