Thursday 13 July 2006

Fair Trade organic coffee that also saves rainforests

My blog today is a blatant sales pitch for an excellent organic, fair trade coffee.
Earlier this year the World Land trust entered into a sponsorship agreement with Miko Coffee, which will help save some large areas of rainforest in south America. Miko Coffee were developing a new fairtrade brand, which has now been launched as Puro [see: http://www.puro.co.uk/]. Miko realised that there was an increasing demand for fair trade coffee, and they also realised that since most fair trade coffee was also organic, that many of its potential customers would be interested in conserving the natural environment. And hence the link with the World Land Trust. The Puro Coffee brand is sourced from growers in the Tambopata Valley of Peru -- an area in the Amazon watershed and well-known for its wildlife importance. Consequently protecting remaining forests and linking that protection with local coffee growers will be a priority for the WLT.

But readers of this blog can also help -- if they know of any offices, students' unions, businesses large or small, clubs, theatres, restaurants ete etc., that would like to sell a high quality fair trade organic coffee, they should refer them to the Puro website. The World Land Trust receives a royalty on all the coffee sold. And it really is an excellent tasting coffee, as the staff were able to sample this morning. Our local Miko Coffee marketting manager arrived in the WLT offices and intalled a small table top coffeee machine -- that grinds fresh coffee beans as it makes the coffee. The coffee is available throught most of Europe, as well as in Britain. And it will also help save rainforests.

2 comments:

  1. I totally support your efforts to encourage people to use organic, fair trade coffee. I am also encouraging my friends to buy it through my blog. While most of my readers are in the U.S., I will try to link your site to mine, so if I get any European readers, they can buy your coffee. Good Luck!

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  2. Just to let you know we sell PURO coffee in our coffee shop and nothing else. People love the taste and buy because of it being fairtrade. If you are in Leeds pop in!!!
    www.tarpins.co.uk

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