Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Now a Certified Green Restaurant.
ENERGY RESOURCE-9 May 2007-Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Now a Certified Green Restaurant(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, the oldest and largest privately held chain of specialty coffee stores in the United States, has been recognized by the Green Restaurant Association as the...

Muscovado sugar export promo sought.
Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte has urged the agencies concerned to purposely mount a big push to develop the country's production of muscovado sugar, also known as "the poor man's sugar," so that Filipino growers can tap the rapidly growing global market for the commodity. "The world...

A new perk for coffee drinkers.
Coffee lovers at Denver's AMC Cancer Research Center have developed a special brew that provides more antioxidants than green tea. Their patented coffee-roasting process preserves the natural antioxidants that are present in green coffee beans before they are roasted. The result is coffee with a phenolic content equivalent to...

Coffee reconquers the West.
It's easy to laugh at Martin's spoof of the Los Angeles coffee scene, but in fact the array of options facing coffee drinkers today is no joke. Never has there been as wide a choice of beans, roasts, grinds, and brewing methods. And never has the process of making...

You are what you drink.
Beverages with calories are dangerous. Humans evolved drinking only water. Today, Americans get more than 20 percent of their calories from beverages. We drink juice, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and milk. We drink Frappuccinos, milk shakes, smoothies, and coffee with cream and sugar. We drink vitamin-fortified fruit...

Triple bottom-line capitalism and the 'third place'.
Prominent in the United States for a number of years and emerging in Britain and Australia recently, Borders Bookstores and Starbucks Coffee Company embody a considerable shift in mainstream business practices. These two firms represent the 'caring, sharing' corporations that now aim to engage what were, until the recent...

Coffee snobs unite! How Americans' bad taste in coffee is putting Juan Valdez out of business.
IN MARCH, MY FIANCEE AND I SEARCHED through stores in Vientiane for souvenirs of Laos to give friends in Washington. Not easy--the tiny country's best-known export is opium, which doesn't work as a gift for everyone. But we found the perfect present: bags of coffee grown on Laos' Bolovens...

Tempest in a coffeepot: Starbucks invades the world. (Culture and Reviews).
THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL Festival of Arts and Ideas, held last June in New Haven, Connecticut, was one of those upscale boho fairs filled with puppets and Andean pan pipes aimed at the Birkenstock-and-Volvo set. A guest speaker was explaining why foreigners hate us. He railed against the "homogenization" of...

Coffee shop barista makes generous gift.
In our last column, we reported about an Atlanta woman who donated a kidney to an elementary school girl who desperately needed one. Once again, another example of such selfless generosity has surfaced. Annamarie Ausnes, like many residents of Seattle, was in the habit of stopping at...

Plan your business.
Working on a business plan is a good exercise for anyone looking to start a business. You will need a plan if you are looking for funding. Just as importantly, though, developing your business plan will enable you to think through all the details of your new venture. If...