Green Coffee Resources
September 15, 2008 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Business
When purchasing coffee for your office, choosing all-natural, sustainable, free-trade, organic beans is definitely better than buying the super-sized, generic can of brew.
Inarguably, though, it can get a little expensive to purchase green coffee. One reader emailed me what I thought was a great tip:
“At our office, everyone who drinks coffee chips in and we take turns buying the better green coffee. We trade off once a week, so everyone only has to buy about ten pots of coffee every three months. If we need more than two pots in the morning, we have a can of generic that we make to hold us over. Whoever buys the coffee gets to pick it – but the only rule is that it has to be green, and if you choose a flavored coffee, you have to also provide a non-flavored option.
That’s a great way to go green in a small business environment if the boss won’t pay the extra money for environmentally-friendly beans.
Of course, if you are the boss, you should consider it, but if you simple don’t have the money in the budget, talk to your employees – if there is interest, you can put a “sustainable coffee fund” empty can near the pot and encourage employees to donate their extra change every so often. Every time the money in the cup covers the extra cost of the green coffee, purchase it! Soon, you’ll probably be surprised to find that you never have to buy cheap non-green coffee.
But enough rambling. Here are some great resources for green coffee:
- Allegro Coffee: http://www.allegrocoffee.com
- Caffe Ibis: http://www.caffeibis.com
- Coffee Pause: http://www.coffeepause.com
- DaSilva fine brazillian coffee: http://www.dasilvausa.com/
- Elan Organic Coffees:http://www.elanorganic.com/
- Green Mountain Coffee: http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/
- Jeremiah’s Pick Coffee:http://www.jeremiahspick.com/
- Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Co, Inc.: http://www.swisswater.com/
These companies are all a part of the Organic Trade Association! If you have a favorite green coffee, please let us all know about it below in a comment!
