It’s been estimated that American consumers drink approximately 400 million cups of coffee every day. That generates a lot of old coffee grounds, and usually those grounds go straight into the trash can. While coffee farming has been notorious for its contribution to the destruction of South American rainforests, coffee [...]

There are several ways you can have a thin and sexy body. You can work-out, eat less and even undergo under the knife. But, wouldn’t it be nice if you could lose weight without the need to diet and exercise? Fortunately, extracts from green coffee beans can help you achieve your fitness [...]

You know that carbon emissions cause rising temperatures and they, in turn, cause extreme weather. But it’s not just your weather that rising temperatures are threatening. According to a study by researchers at Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, rising temperatures could make wild arabica coffee extinct in 70 years. Translation: The [...]

With single-serve coffee brewers becoming increasingly trendy, it was only a matter of time before companies would try to capitalize on the sustainability of these devices. An Illinois-based manufacturing company has introduced a line of “eco-friendly, single-serve filters”. LBP Manufacturing, Inc. has invented the UpShot Solution. The filter is meant [...]

Who knew that little critters no bigger than a thumbtack could wreak so much havoc? Reuters tells the worrisome story of Colombian farmer Jairo Morales. He’s devastated because his coffee trees are speckled with crimson as tiny red spider mites attack his plantation. This chaos is not only threatening his [...]

More bad news for the world’s oceans. Coast to coast, we Canadians love our coffee. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we sit above Seattle – the home of Starbucks and another major site for bean fiends. But our bodies eventually dispose of all the caffeine we ingest and as it [...]

My name is Jessica, and I’m an addict. I’ve been a caffeine junkie since I was 13, and I won’t tell you how many years that’s been but I will say that I’m at Lohan levels by now. Still, as delightful as a warm cup of joe is in the [...]

A recent report by the Asian Development Bank, titled Food Security and Poverty in Asia and the Pacific, has highlighted that the climate change will have a devastating impact on food security. According to the report: Climate change is a major contributing factor in the battle to provide food security [...]

It is not always easy to live a more environmentally friendly life and, for this reason, many people do not really attempt to do so but one man is out to change that. Steve Waller, more commonly known in the blogosphere as Green Steve, has set out to show the [...]

A lot is made of Fair Trade certification these days and the buying of products which ensure that farmers and workers in the developing world get a fair price as well as other benefits from trading their produce. However, when it comes to ethical, fair-trade coffee do people really take [...]