Archive for February, 2007

Coffee Plantation - Rubio at House’s helm with ‘100 Ideas’ and global outlook

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Ledger - Sosa, now a Miami-Dade County commissioner, dropped her gardening tools for a cup of coffee. “Forty-eight hours later I was knocking on doors in West Miami” for Rubio’s first campaign, she said. Rubio, a conservative Republican, won over local voters
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Coffee Plantation - Is Starbucks Being Watered Down? 

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Starbucks Corp. Chairman Howard Schultz told executives in a memo last week that measures taken to fuel the coffee shop chain’s rapid expansion had led to a watering down of its iconic brand.
Starbucks chair: Brand getting watered down Company founder Howard Schultz says automatic espresso machines, bagged coffee and ‘cookie cutter’ store designs [...]

Coffee Plantation - Transcript: The Skinny on Fat

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

MSNBC - Dean Ornish: Studies of coffee show conflicting evidence. Putting aside the health considerations, caffine doesn’t give you energy, you’re just borrowing it. You get a surge of energy when you drink caffeine, but then feel tired when it wears off
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Coffee Plantation - Supply chain execs share disaster-planning techniques

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Network World Fusion - For Procter & Gamble, a well tuned business continuity plan was critical to recovering after Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast region last August and left the company s Folgers coffee-making facilities
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Coffee Plantation - This is a story about gourmet coffee and genocide. It takes place in

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Observer - When we’ve finished talking to B atrice - who’s hoping to use the extra money her coffee crop should get this year to repair her leaky roof - we go a few yards into the plantation so Suki Dhanda can photograph the family. Jean-Paul puts on his shiny
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Coffee Plantation - It’s a good location for Dunkin’ Donuts I know most of the neighbors

Monday, February 26th, 2007

News-Times - However, these are my reasons for being in favor of it. 1. I will enjoy a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee while working (playing) out in my yard on my trucks. 2. There will always be traffic in Danbury. 3. Most important, this is commercial property. My
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Coffee Plantation - Gateway owner confident

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Citizen’s Voice - He hopes patrons will be able to park their cars and walk all the way around the plaza, shielded from the weather by a canopy, and that employees won t have to drive to get lunch or a cup of coffee. Amato is so confident in that vision he and [...]

Coffee Plantation - Stores go to war as fairtrade booms

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Guardian Unlimited - Over the past decade we’ve seen them go to war over selling baked beans for less than it costs to produce them, telling The Co-op was the UK’s earliest adopter of fairtrade by a supermarket, selling Cafedirect coffee in 1992. Since then it has
Pupils mix art with [...]

Coffee Plantation - An Art Sanctuary, A Peaceful Respite

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Hartford Courant - A self-made businesswoman, she assembled a collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, modern folk art and paintings by Frida Kahlo As you leave the Salon de Arte Popular, break for a coffee and a galeta (a light Mexican cookie) in the delightful tiled
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Coffee Plantation - Songbirds and Shade Trees

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

NHPR - Lots of us are addicted to coffee, and even to the restorative qualities of a chunk of good chocolate. But have you Every shade plantation that succeeds means another piece of the tropical forest is saved from bulldozers. But in order for
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