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True Origin Organics
True Origin Organics brings us the first exclusively single-origin organic Colombian coffee that is harvested, roasted, and packaged by Colombian coffee experts to the U.S. Their coffee hails from two distinct regions. One from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, which is located on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, an area known for coffee, according to True Origin, [...]
Continue reading...Pura Vida Coffee
13. August 2009
In the same vein as Chiapas Farms, Pura Vida specializes in superior fair trade coffees finely crafted from 100% Arabica beans handpicked in the mountains of one of the world’s premier coffee growing regions and then slow roasted in small patches.
Pura Vida has a variety of blends from light ones (Breakfast Blend for example), to [...]
Chiapas Farms
12. August 2009
Cafe de Chiapas brand coffee is made from a single organic/fair trade cooperative in the highlands of the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. It has a wonderfully nutty and buttery taste with a smooth, slightly sweet finish making it a great morning pick-me-up. The full-bodied, 100% Organic/Fair Trade Arabica coffee is roasted in Austin, TX [...]
Continue reading...Chido’s Blend from Equator Coffee
11. August 2009
Equator Estate Coffees & Teas is a women–owned company, co-founded in 1995 by Helen Russell and Brooke McDonnell with a mission to “continue to be a growing, customer-centric company, dedicated to quality, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility with a commitment to procuring distinctive coffees from growers who practice responsible land stewardship and bio-friendly farming techniques.” [...]
Continue reading...PureVia Sweetener
7. August 2009
PureVia is a new all-natural, zero-calorie sweetener made from the stevia plant and they just launched a new ad campaign with health icon and volleyball player Gabrielle Reece!
The sweatner launched a few months ago in grocery and mass merchandise stores across the U.S. and it is specially blended to complement the flavor of coffee made [...]
The NAKED reNEWabottle
20. July 2009
Naked Juice has just announced that it has become the first nationally-distributed brand to transition to a 100% post-consumer recycled plastic.
Naked Juice expects to have its entire product line transitioned to the 100% post-consumer recycled bottles in 2010, starting by converting all of its 32 ounce bottles this month (Green Machine, Blue Machine, Mighty Mango, [...]
Super Food For 2009
14. April 2009
Have you heard of the baobab fruit? Already, foodies are touting it as the”super fruit” for 2009 and it’s not yet available in the United States.
Grown in Africa, the fruit comes from the adansonia digitata, or”upside-down” tree. The word “baobab” means “monkeybread.” It’s reported that it tastes like a melon, and is a good source [...]
My Talking Pedometer
13. April 2009
O.K., it’s the new year and I’m working on a new me, so I’ve decided to return to counting every step I take each day. My goal: 10,000, which is the recommended number of steps to maintain proper weight and health.
One of the cool things about counting steps is that you can go shopping for [...]
Spring Allergy Season
4. April 2009
You may have sneezed your way through winter, but the spring allergy season is already here. Get readyahhh-chew!
Sneezing. Watery eyes. Elevated asthma symptoms. All because nature is waking up, flowers and other plants are blooming, and you’re probably spending a little more time outdoors, too.
Spring is a very busy time for allergists, so if you [...]
14. August 2009
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