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Green Coffee & Tea: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on green coffee and tea from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
Drinking green coffee
TreeHugger serves up nine Fair Trade blends from Mexico and where to find them.
Coffee connoisseur and eco-urbanite Green LA Girl offers up a six-step program to better, greener coffee drinking.
CoffeeReview.com rates roasts and blends and makes fair trade coffees easy to find.
Speaking of, did you know you can find Fair Trade producers on Google Earth?
Here's the real story on shade-grown coffee and why it's important to drink it.
Get busy with these 5 Hacks to Green Your Coffee Break.
And, while you're at it, here are some tips to skip Starbucks and brew your own coffee.
Pairing organic coffee with dessert can be a delicious, sustainable treat; here are tips and recipes to try Kenyan coffee with organic carrot cake, UCA Miraflor Natural Reserve Nicaraguan Coffee and deep dish apple pie and Organic Sumatran and organic flourless chocolate cake.
When you're all done, take action and recycle coffee grounds, tea in your garden.
Green coffee gear and accessories
For that fresh-ground flavor when camping, living off-grid, or waiting out a world war, try a hand cranked coffee grinder like this one or this one.
This reusable coffee cup comes with its own key and could be the perfect remedy for sticky-fingered coworkers.
A quick roundup of green coffee tech for the home.
A reader asks about less wasteful alternatives to single-serve coffee dispensers we see cropping up in so many offices.
There was a day when only the military had the pleasure of biodegradable coffee cups. Now Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has brought compostable coffee cups for to masses.
Which is lighter on the planet: paper, styrofoam, ceramic? It takes a rigorous life cycle assessment to tell the whole story, and you might be surprised.
The Toddy cold brewer takes the slow and steady (and energy-free) path to brewing coffee.
TreeHugger’s Warren McLaren tackles the conundrum of the potentially toxic reusable coffee mug.
TreeHugger John loves his French press coffee. He chronicles his search for a new brewing devise here.
Can the sun roast coffee? You bet. It just needs a little help from some mirrors.
Here’s a fair trade coffee press and mug for your fair trade roast of choice.
The GeoCup is a conceptual alternative to the single-serving coffee cup.
If sipping coffee is wasting valuable moments you might spend talking about global warming and rising sea levels, this mug can cover for you.
Green coffee companies and organizations
Started by a group of your entrepreneurs, Simple Coffee is trying to expand the boundaries of fair trade.
Wildlife Organic Coffee from the World Conservation Society is all about Papua New Guinea.
Kicking Horse Coffee is a triple kick: shade grown, fair trade, and organic.
Vermont Coffee Company stokes its roasting engines with carbon neutral biodiesel.
Thanksgiving Coffee from Uganda is the work of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish farming cooperative.
This Ontario coffee company does some of the greenest beans around, all the way from the solar drying to the carbon neutral roasting.
Even coffee giant Nescafé has something to offer in the Fair Trade department.
TreeHugger had the opportunity to chat with the producer/co-directory of Black Gold, a documentary about the worldwide politics of coffee.
Drinking green tea
TreeHuggers get intimate with three world-class teas from The Groovy Mind.
Treleela and Tea Forte make tea bags like the world has never seen, but are they infusion art or a packaging nightmare?
Get down 'n dirty with some handy tips to brew a better cup of tea.
When you're done brewing, check out these five tips for reusing tea bags.
For a cool, refreshing beverage, try Emeril's rum-spiked sweet tea (in moderation, of course).
Green tea gear and accessories
When “designers and connoisseurs meet for tea,” The Teastick infuser is born.
TreeHugger rounds up a selection of choice leaves for brewing.
The simplicity of the reusable tea infuser as a product service system.
The Eco Kettle by Product Creation is a hot pot that heats just the right amount of water. British, of course.
Green tea companies and organizations
Today Was Fun offers a range of creative blended teas including Green Green Tea, which is both healthy and carbon neutral.
Organic, fair trade, and beyond, from Republic of Tea.
Teaology offers organic flavors like Jumpstart, Whip It, Stop the Clock, and Urban Defense.
Kicking Horse Coffee also does some kicking tea.
Organic Revolution Tea is as pleasing to look at as it is to drink, biodegradable pyramid bags and all.
Rishi Teas offers ancient varieties of artesian, hand-picked and hand-rolled teas.
Moby and his sweety operate Teany, a tea lover’s paradise in NY.
Guayaki organic yerba mate peps you up gaucho-style.
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