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If you're looking for a great value in K-Cup coffee for your Keurig coffee brewer (or any brewer that supports the K Cup format for single cup brewing), look no further than Green Mountain Coffees.
Green Mountain is dedicated to providing the best coffee available in both traditional ground and bean coffees and K-Cup single brew format. They're also dedicated to improving the social impact of the coffee trade in the lower income countries that supply some of the world's best coffees, making them a good choice for you money and for your social values.
What is the K Cup?
For those who don't know, K Cups are the single serving coffee containers used with Keurig (and now other) single cup coffee brewers. Keurig created and pioneered the technology, licensing the K-Cup design to the best, highest quality coffee providers in the world so they could make their own coffees available for use with the Keurig brewers, in their own specifications for the perfect grind and roast of each bean.
The container itself is about the size of a single serving dairy creamer. Inside is a miniature coffee filter and just the right amount of coffee to brew a perfect cup, according to each manufacturer. The cups are then vacuum sealed with a combination foil/plastic lid to keep the coffee inside fresh and keep the air out.
What is Fair Trade?
The Fair Trade business philosophy is one of social and environmental consciousness. Instead of focusing simply on whether or not a product is economically beneficially - ie: profitable - the company focuses on the whole picture. How does producing it affect the area it's produced? This is considered on economical, environmental and social levels. Fair Trade focuses on providing sustainable products which are products that benefit everyone and hopefully everything. The goal of the philosophy is to help lift people in poverty and hunger stricken areas out of that and into a better life through their labors.
Green Mountain Coffee aims to expand the demand for sustainable "Free Trade Certified" coffees so that they can help more people around the world as they expand their lines of sustainable coffees.
What are the benefits to me?
K-Cups mean there will be no more making 3 different pots of coffee for 3 different people every day, and throwing half of it away, no more inter-office bickering over decaf or not (or herbal tea or Arabica coffee), no complaints of "but I don't like that flavor!" Every person can make their own personal favorite whenever they want, one cup at a time with no waste.
Kcups also mean there will be less mess to clean up and less maintenance needed for the brewing machine. Some models of the K-Cup style single brewers will even allow you to choose the size of the brewed cup, to control the strength of each cup, as well as the temperature for those who like cooler or hotter coffee.
Fair Trade Certified products mean that every time you purchase one of Green Mountain's Fair Trade Certified products, you're doing your part to help a farming family in one of the less fortunate parts of the world make a difference in their community and supporting sustainable product growth and farming. You're doing your part to help the environment as well as a less fortunate family make a sustainable and comfortable living.
Fair Trade Certified products means you have one more reason to smile when you sip your cup of coffee in the morning.
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