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May 1, 2009: The sincerest form of flattery

Last year, Counter Culture Coffee launched its Direct Trade program. They also strarted rolling out their current line of packaging: brown kraft-like valve bags with a sleeve that has nice origin-appropriate art, a map on one side panel showing the...

February 26, 2009: Coffee review: Starbucks Organic Shade Grown Mexico

Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #41. Starbucks Organic Shade Grown Mexico is produced by around 900 small farmers on 3200 ha of land in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas [1]. Many of the...

November 8, 2007: Book review: Starbucked

I've just finished Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture by Taylor Clark, just released by Little Brown. It's an entertaining, well-written and researched "biography" of the genesis and rise of Starbucks, and the concurrent/coincident specialty coffee...

October 18, 2007: Starbucks Black Apron Costa Rica

Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #29. Starbucks Black Apron Exclusive: Organic Lomas Al Rio (Costa Rica). This review is a tad out of the ordinary for two reasons. First, I don't buy coffee from...

September 29, 2007: Starbucks and Ethiopia: investigative report

The Sacramento Bee has published an in-depth report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Knudson exploring Starbucks and its Ethiopian relationships. Of particular interest to C&C readers will be the information on Ethiopia's Gemadro Estate, the source of one of their...

May 24, 2007: A note from Terranova Estate (Starbucks Black Apron)

Last month, I posted about the latest Starbucks Black Apron selection, from Zambia's Terranova Estate, owned by the Street family. Warren Street was kind enough to leave a long comment on the post, giving more detail on things I found...

April 7, 2007: Starbucks Black Apron Terranova Estate

I have commented on two previous Starbucks Black Apron selections (Sulawesi Kopi Kampung and Ethiopia Gemadro Estate), so I may as well keep going. The latest Black Apron coffee is Terranova Estate from Zambia. Recall that the Black Apron Exclusives...

February 15, 2007: Green Mountain and Starbucks make top 100 list

The CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer, formerly Business Ethics magazine) has just published its eighth annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens, considered the third most influential corporate ranking. Companies are rated on their performance in eight categories: shareholders, community, governance, diversity, employees,...

January 22, 2007: Nestle and Starbucks respond to illegal coffee report

In an article in an Indonesian newspaper, Nestlé and Starbucks both responded to the report that they had been purchasing robusta coffee beans illegally grown in a Sumatran national park in Lampung province. Nestlé A spokesman for Nestlé Indonesia made...

October 20, 2006: Starbucks Ethiopia Gemadro Estate: Corporate greenwashing?

The new Black Apron edition coffee from Starbucks, Ethiopia Gemadro Estate, showed up in our local stores within the last few weeks. Despite our generally low opinion of the taste of many Starbucks coffees, C&C is happy to review them...

June 4, 2006: Free samples of Starbucks Cafe Estima

Today my home-delivered Sunday paper, in a large midwestern city, was in a sleeve containing a free 2.5 ounce sample (ground) of Starbucks Cafe Estima, their Fair Trade blend. The sleeve explained that Starbucks shares the goals of TransFair USA...

June 1, 2006: Coffee Review: Starbucks Black Apron: Sulawesi Kopi Kampung

Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #1. The new C&C tasting panel decided to cut our teeth (so to speak) on Starbucks' newest Black Apron offering: Sulawesi Kopi Kampung. We chose this for our first...

May 16, 2006: Starbucks responsible coffees

Under the Starbucks category, you can read more about the company's struggles with committing to Fair Trade and environmentally-responsible coffees. In particular, Green LA Girl has two posts (here and here) regarding the Starbucks point-based CAFE practices which I mentioned...

January 22, 2006: The Starbucks Challenge

In the spirit of the Global Exchange Starbucks campaign, two blogs, one based in the U.S. (green LA girl) and the other in the U.K. (City Hippy), started the Starbucks Challenge in early October 2005. It turns out Starbucks actually...

January 20, 2006: Global Exchange Starbucks campaign

Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. Fair Trade issues are among their concerns. In fall 1999, Global Exchange requested that Starbucks offer Fair Trade Certified coffee in all...

January 12, 2006: Starbucks and Conservation International

Starbucks entered into a partnership with the well-respected non-profit Conservation International in 1998, an alliance also supported by USAID (unfortunately known to finance many projects promoting sun coffee). Here is a short history of some of the results of that...

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