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Greta Thunberg: A Profile
Greta Thunberg, 16, is perhaps the most prominent voice in the climate and environment crisis movement today. She started the Fridays for Future school-strike in 2018, leaving class every Friday to sit in front of the Swedish Parliament, striking for climate action:
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Climate Change Coffee Campaign … Sign Up Now!
In true spirit of environmental campaigning we spent Saturday August 24th, with our friends at the Patagonia store in Toronto collecting names and support for our upcoming Climate Change Coffee program!
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Coffee + Food + Discussion = Community
We don't often think of coffee as a food, and yet it is the roasted seed of a cherry; the first thing many of us consume each morning. It's also—quite often—the last flavour to finish off a celebratory, multi-course meal.
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Environment Stories Setting the Tone for 2019
At first it might appear all negative, but people all over the world are actively working on solutions and there is still time. Kim Robinson of Sierra Magazine analyzes the drastic changes taking place in our "Anthropocene" as well as some of the top-debated solutions for putting a halt to
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The “Ace” of Coffee Brewers
For over a decade, we've been developing and using this simple setup to brew our signature rich and sweet-tasting black cups of "Merchants Method" black coffee. We've always referred to our beloved little tool as the "coffee spring" and our process for brewing "steep & filter"—simply because we felt they
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We’ve Named Our Cafe and We’re Expanding the Production of Cafe Solar®
Today marks a special day in our history as we announced the official name of our cafe, along with our partners; the Mesoamerican Development Institute, who announced some exciting plans for the expansion of our flagship coffee program.
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#InternationalCoffeeDay News: We’re Officially (Soft) Launching Our Cafe!
Today is considered “International Coffee Day”, but don’t worry if you weren’t aware because no one seems to know its real origin. The concept has been promoted on different days in different countries—the earliest record being Japan in 1983.
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Merchants of Green Coffee (Cafe) News!
We have 2 very exciting announcements to make: #1 We’re naming our cafe! (a number of years ago the cafe just sort of ... happened, and it's now time for an official recognition!)
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Today We Say Thanks to USA Today!
Today we're thanking USA Today because they published a story about us and one of the 3 Keys to Great Tasting Coffee (freshness of the roast) in their travel section this week!
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Our Holiday Wish? To Sell 44,000lbs of Cafe Solar as quickly as possible!
Around here, we're calling it a Christmas miracle! As of today, the new Cafe Solar harvest is here in our shop, and we couldn't be more excited to bring this supremely sustainable Honduran coffee to market.
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