I’ve said before that the quality of your cup of coffee is directly influenced by the green coffee you use. From my stumbling around the web, I’ve located quite a number of Green Coffee Bean vendors, and here I’ll list some of the better ones that I’ve managed to find:
Merchants of Green Coffee
Sweet Marias
Green Coffee Buyers Club
Coffee Bean Corral
If you’ve had a great experience with a green coffee bean supplier, be sure to let us know so we can add to this list!

Starbucks Profits Fall By 97% In Past Quarter
With everything that the coffee giant, Starbucks, is trying to do to turn itself around, nothing seems to be helping. The economic slump isn’t helping one bit either as consumers are slowing down on purchases of specialty coffee from the once dominating force in the coffee industry.
New rivals have emerged, offering specialty coffee now are other food industry giants like McDonalds. Recently, McDonalds started offering a variety of specialty coffee beverages, and consumers are obviously enjoying the opportunity. …

What Is The Agreement?
The goal of the Ethiopian Trademark agreement is to form a new partnership between Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee and the countless coffee roasters around the planet that purchase, roast and sell Ethiopia’s fines coffees. Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar/Harrar are very well known gourmet coffees in the industry. In the past, Ethiopian coffee producers and exporters have had few opportunities to work directly with brokers/importers and roasters.
Who Is Responsible For The Agreement
The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO) is responsible for this initiative along with the …

As you may know, I am a roaster with one of Canada’s first Fair Trade Certified Coffee Companies, Planet Bean Coffee. Recently, a column was written in our local newspaper, the Guelph Mercury by Gene Callahan. The article was extremely anti-Fair Trade, and also written by someone who is extremely uninformed about the actual complexities involved with Fair Trade.
A member of Planet Bean, Bill Barrett made a firm reply to this column which was published on Saturday August 23, 2008. The article, as it …