Posted by Amanda on 25 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Fair Trade, Social Responsibility
Thanks to the support GMCR is providing through Catholic Relief Services, the ASOCAMPO cooperative farmers and their families are now diversifying the use of their land, and in addition to growing coffee are growing food to eat and to sell, as an additional source of income.
Posted by Amanda on 23 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
Today, we’re highlighting one of the online competition’s most read ideas last week that aims to strengthen local communities in New England and New York – this one specifically in Rhode Island.
Posted by Winston on 22 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Other Stuff
Today as we speak, we’re roasting up the Special Reserve Costa Rican coffee called “Los Nacientes”. This is one of the farms that a bunch of employees and I visited just two weeks ago on an Employee Source Trip.
When I started working at GMCR in the Factory Outlet Store in 1991 (they weren’t called cafés [...]
Posted by Winston on 19 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Other Stuff
Plenty, it turns out.
We sponsor a training program with our friends at Sustainable Harvest in Lima, Peru that teaches coop members and farmers in Peru to cup. Cupping is the sensory evaluation of coffee using a rigorous, objective set of protocols that helps everyone in the supply chain fairly and accurately judge and grade coffee.
As [...]
Posted by Roger on 18 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee & K-Cups, Events, Fair Trade, Keurig, Life In Vermont
Coffee Sampling Event at Killington, Vermont.
Posted by Amanda on 16 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Other Stuff, Social Responsibility
The Revelation To Action Competition updates and weekly Coffee Break segment with Green Mountain Coffee and Changemakers.
Posted by Kristen on 10 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Social Responsibility
Green Mountain Coffee is partnering with Ashoka’s Changemakers to launch an online competition to find and help fund creative solutions to strengthen communities across New England and New York.