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The coffee industry has come up with certifications that place emphasis on ecological and environmental standards. Learn about these standards on coffee plus educate yourself on the quality of your coffee beans. Bird-Friendly (Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center) This is the only true shade-grown certification. Developed by ecologists at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, this certification [...]

The Green Mountain Starbucks Deal A recent story by Bloomberg, the financial magazine, cited the Chairman of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), Robert Stiller, for insider trading related to knowledge that a competing product would lessen his stock value. There has been a maelstrom of media reporting on the matter and accusing the nearly 70-year [...]

If you had a door that was repeatedly broken into would you fix it? According to a survey that examined how much companies spend on the security of their website applications compared to that of coffee, coffee won by a landslide. 88 percent of the companies questioned indicated that the website attacks are a large [...]

In our last article in Coffee Plus we took a look a “Sustainable Coffees” and mentioned countries that grow coffee in the sun by mass production methods and those who grow coffee naturally using methods in the shade. These natural or sustainable methods of growing coffee preserve native forest and biodiversity and use few if [...]

Given the recent growth of the coffee industry, there has also been an associated growth on the concern for sustainable coffee. Sustainable coffee is considered to be coffee that is kind to the environment and its people. Increases in the production of coffee plus changes in the manner in which coffee is grown, have caused [...]

Have you heard of the Indonesian Green Dragon coffee that comes from Flores Island of Indonesia? This area, called the Manggarai Region, is located in the Eastern Sunda Island Archipelago and is one of the few places in the world where Komodo Dragons are still found in the wild. The interesting thing about this coffee [...]

Coffee and caffeine are harsh on our teeth, and considering that we only have one set it is important to ensure the longevity of them. Coffee is a drink that is obviously packed with caffeine but also a chemical called tannic acid. Tannic acid is the chemical in coffee that makes the dark color and [...]

While most Americans now know that coffee does in fact boast health benefits such as offsetting the effects of dementia and Alzheimer’s they still managed to get lost in the fact that certain coffee concoctions are simultaneously affecting their health. New takes on coffee from our favorite providers are packed full of sugar and the [...]

Brazil has set itself up for successful revenue generation with its role as the world’s largest coffee producer. For over a decade and a half, Brazil has maintained responsibility for about a third of the world’s coffee production, controlling prices and placing an exclamation point on the country’s ability to generate revenue from this popular [...]

February is American Heart Month and marks a time to bring awareness to cardiovascular disease and educate Americans on what we can do to live healthy. The good news for coffee drinkers is that there are more studies showing the benefit to drinking coffee in the form of positive health effects. A Harvard Nurses Study [...]