Is Coffee Going Green?

How This Morning Beverage Is Drawing The Environmentally Friendly

Nov 23, 2008

From fair trade to organic, green coffee is growing in popularity as consumers show concern for how their morning cup is grown and traded.

Coffee consumers are becoming more interested in knowing where their coffee beans are coming from and how fairly traded the products are. These concerns are driving the market to produce more organic and fairly-traded coffee beans around the globe. From women-owned coffee plantations to worker-owned coops green coffee is a growing trend.

Green Coffee Companies

BuyWell Fair Trade Coffee – offers a line of organic and fair trade coffee grown by Café Femenino Peru, an all woman-owned female coffee growers cooperative. The Café Femenino Coffee Project helps women coffee producers in Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru with over 1,500 members. BuyWell Coffee can be reached at 888-532-2701 and Café Femenino can be reached through Organic Products Trading Company at PO Box 2994, Vancouver, Washington, 98668, USA, phone: 360-573-4433.

Equal Exchange – a worker-owned cooperative, Equal Exchange prides itself in taking an environmental and ethical approach to its products. Coffee is sourced from small farmer co-ops that are invested in sustainable farming practices. Equal Exchange carries both organic and conventional coffee blends. Equal Exchange can be contacted at 50 United Drive, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA, phone 774-776-7400.

Larry’s Beans – this North Carolina business is all about green coffee and being a green company. Larry’s Beans has developed a bio-degradable coffee bean bag that composts in the backyard garden or the landfill. Their fair trade and organic coffees come in a variety of flavors. Larry’s Beans coffee roasting plant is powered by passive solar and local deliveries in the Raleigh, North Carolina area are done with biodiesel in the tank. Larry’s Beans, 1507 Gavin Street, Raleigh, NC, 27608, USA, 919-828-1234.

Green Coffee Cafés

This growing trend of organic or green coffee shops and artisan cafés means an environmentally-friendly cup of coffee can be enjoyed in public too.

Strictly Organic Coffee – is located at 6 Southwest Bond Street in Bend, Oregon, USA. Organic coffee is brewed daily and a menu of organic and local food items are available as well.

Blue Parrot on Granville – located in the Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 604-688-5127 serves organic coffee and espressos daily. Fresh baked goods compliment the coffee and espresso menu.

Grounded – is an organic coffee and tea house at 28 Jane Street in West Village, New York, USA, 212-647-0943. The coffee shop features both local and organic products such as the local organic milk and the local Amish cheddar. Coffees are organic, certified fair trade and farmer friendly.

Olga’s Coffee Shop – at Tamarindo Guanacaste in Costa Rica serves local, organically grown coffees and handmade baked goods and sandwiches. Call them at 506-395-5838.

justbean espresso bar – at 18 New Market Street in Leeds, United Kingdom, offers espresso and coffees from organic and fair-trade beans.

Café Organica – in Bryanston, Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa specializes in shade-grown coffees and gluten-free baked goods.

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