Green Mountain Coffee!

Great news for anyone who is a coffee lover like me. Seeing as you can't buy your coffee locally grown, the next best alternative is to buy coffee that supports a great cause! Green Mountain Coffee has launched its single origin coffees, including the Tanzanian Gombe Reserve line. The Coffee Review, which rates coffees on a scale from 1-100 for coffee connoisseurs, gave the Gombe coffee a fantastic score of 90! Business Wire also has this to say about the Gombe Reserve Coffee;

"The Tanzanian Gombe Reserve coffee is sourced in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute. This coffee is grown by small-scale farmers near Tanzania’s Gombe National Park, where Dr. Goodall did her groundbreaking research on chimpanzee behavior. Much of the land around the park has become deforested, threatening one of the last remaining habitats for wild chimpanzees. Growing coffee helps provide a solution because coffee plants thrive under the shade of the forest canopy, which is also vital to the chimps’ survival. Coffee farming gives farmers an incentive to preserve the forest and a chance at economic stability. Tanzanian Gombe Reserve is also the first product to receive Jane Goodall's "Good for All" seal of approval, which is reserved for high-quality products produced with a commitment to fair pay for farmers, sustainable agriculture, and wildlife conservation."

You can read more about the launch here or you can check out Green Mountain and buy a pack of Gombe Reserve coffee over here (and it's less expensive than a bag from Starbucks!).