Caffeine May Benefit Your Mind:

That's because a new study shows the caffeine in coffee, tea and other beverages may help us remember. Using high powered scans, researchers found the stimulant can activate the short-term memory center in our brain. Read More >>>

Fair Trade Benefits All Workers . In recent years, it has become apparent that the new system of globalization and free trade has too often degenerated into one of crude exploitation of people and the environment in the developing world. Fair trade is based on a business model that puts workers and the environment first, not last. Read More >>>
Starbucks Coffee . Starbucks Coffee Co., hoping to triple the number of its shops around the world, is joining a U.S. development agency and environmental conservationists... Read More >>>
International Coffee Organization. As the largest coffee importing nation in the world, representing about a quarter of the world's consumption, the US... Read More >>>
Starbucks News.
Growing at a pace of three stores a day, Starbucks fears an eventual shortage of coffee growers capable of meeting its standards -- and takes steps to do something about that. Read More >>>
Fair Trade Coffee.
TransFair USA, an Oakland-based nonprofit that certifies so-called fair trade coffee imports into the United States, said Monday that it certified 18.7 million pounds of such coffee in 2003, a 91 percent increase ... Read More >>>
 
 
 
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