CSRwire.com -- Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire: "First, it disbursed some through EcoLogic Finance, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that provides microfinance loans to eco-enterprises in Latin America. Second, the foundation provided financing to 3 cooperatives in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Nicaragua, which support 10,000 members collectively. The co-ops engage in Fair Trade certification, a program that guarantees coffee farmers a fair price while also encouraging social and environmental sustainability. "
Starbucks make me laugh! Too little, too late. They are pouring water drops in a huge desert. Definitely they are doing this so called 'Social Responsibility' thing just to convince naive consumers how good they are to the farmers! It is quite frustrating.
2theadvocate.com: Business - California coffee company starts the daily grind in La. 03/18/04: "Ticobeans took its name from the word Tico, an affectionate term for a Costa Rican. It buys specialty grade green, or unroasted, arabica beans from the Tarrazu region of Costa Rica, the highest-altitude growing region in the country."
Who are these guys? They are not buying from us anyway, most likely, if the roasters don't go any further describing the source of their coffee, doubts cast upon their operation. Identify your source or else.
Earthwatch Institute Announces Starbucks Sponsorship of 10 Expenses-Paid Opportunities to Join a Pioneering Forest Restoration Project in Costa Rica: "The 10 winners will work closely with scientists and a local cooperative of coffee growers to conduct a pioneering forest restoration project in a region of Costa Rica where less than 10 percent of the original forest remains. Based out of Agua Buena, Costa Rica, participants will plant trees in experimental plots and measure seedlings to help determine the success of the on-going restoration effort. "
Pure Bull.. This is the kind of publicity that leave you saying What are they thinking? Ten Starbucks Sponsored people doing nothing in an area where thousands have left the coffee farms because of Starbucks driven low prices. Again I say, Pure Bull..
