Earth Day Green Tips – Green Coffee
More Earth Day Green Tips from Ideal Bite. Less than two days till Earth Day – Tuesday, April 22nd…
Do you count on your coffee beans for more than just taste?
The Bite
We mean besides giving you the ability to function normally. Check your coffee label for the perfecta trifecta before you jumpstart your day: fair-trade, organic, and shade grown.
The Benefits
- Fab flavor. We bet you’ll like these blends as much as your fave specialty roasts.
- Fair-trade means fair wages for workers and guarantees foreign producers a fair price for their beans.
- Safer sippin’. At an average of 3.1 cups of coffee per day, coffee drinkers who sip organic avoid the risk of consuming pesticides.
- Saving birds. Shade-grown coffee means farmers let trees grow on their farms, giving migrating birds a place to stop and smell the coffee.
Personally Speaking
Jen gave up coffee on New Years and has stuck to it. But with the likes of Equal Exchange and other great finds around, the rest of us just don’t have it in us to say goodbye…
Wanna Try?
- Equal Exchange French Roast – flavorful classic blends. We also love the Decaf blend, which cuts the caf but not the taste ($9/10 oz).
- Beantrees Classic Espresso – a tasty, rich espresso ($11/12 oz).
- Jim’s Happy House Blend – has a smooth, robust flavor that’s anything but bitter, even if you take your coffee black ($10/12 oz).
- Café Humana Peruvian Swiss Water Decaf – a great dark decaf ($11/12 oz).
Jitter and Jive
And while I still usually go the way of tea (we’ll do a tea roundup soon!), sometimes the java jive is worth a jitter or two. It’s also central to grandpa’s migraine quick-fix – two aspirin and a stiff cup actually works sometimes. In addition to the blends in today’s tip, I like Allegro (esp. Organic French Roast) – at home, instead of a plastic drip contraption we use a ceramic drip one (these can be hard to find but last forever), which allows you to masterfully control coffee strength and is a snap to clean.
-Jenifer Morgan…off to move in Allegro tempo…
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2 Comments
Vincent
April 21st, 2008
at 7:35am
i usuly dont but now i do
Jim in Virginia
April 22nd, 2008
at 5:10am
I can’t wait for the tea roundup! I absolutely shudder with anticipation. Maybe we can all stand in a circle, hold hands, and sing ‘cum by yah’ while we lighten our carbon footprint.