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February 5, 2008
2007 Kids to School Program: 130 Child Aid Scholarships provided!
This past December was an exciting time for Ethical Bean Coffee Company with the great success of this year's Kids to School program. One dollar from every unit of coffee sold was contributed to sending kids to school in Guatemala. Thanks to your purchases, 130 children were sponsored through Child Aid, which was more than the past three years combined! The Child Aid FUNDIT program includes education, uniforms, books and health care: the resources needed for the healthy development of children and their families in El Tejar, Guatemala.
In March 2007 Lloyd, Kim and their family went to Guatemala where they spent some time at the school where the scholarships have been provided. They had the great opportunity to watch a beautiful presentation the children had put together which included a cultural dance.
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November 8, 2007
Kids to School
Every year in December, Ethical Bean contributes a dollar for every unit of coffee sold to provide scholarships for Guatemalan school children via the Child Aid FUNDIT program that provides the healthy development of children and their families in El Tejar, Guatemala.
Over the past 3 years, consumers of Ethical Bean Coffee have helped provide tuition for 115 children.
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September 6, 2007
Ethical Bean is a supporting sponsor of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival September 6-16, 2007.
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July 11, 2007
Ethical Bean raises the bar for sustainable coffee
Local coffee roaster goes carbon neutral
Green coffee never tasted so good. Ethical Bean announced today it has
gone carbon neutral, making its 100-per-cent certified fair trade organic coffee more sustainable than ever.
The Vancouver-based roaster has invested in carbon offsets, balancing all carbon emissions for warehouse-to-store activities including roasting, facility operations and shipping.
"Reducing our carbon footprint is an important step along our continuing path to greater sustainability," says Lloyd Bernhardt, owner of Ethical Bean. "We only roast 100-per-cent fair trade organic beans and now we've taken our operations to the next level. We have purchased carbon offsets to ensure that all of our beans are delivered to customers through carbon-neutral operations."
Carbon offsetting is a system of overall emission reduction where the production of carbon dioxide in one area is cancelled out by a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions elsewhere. Ethical Bean's carbon offsets will support the production of biomass, wind and solar energy production in Western Canada. These new energy sources will be added to the local power grid, reducing B.C. and Alberta's reliance on non-renewable energy sources and helping to fight global warming over the long term.
"Our customers have always looked to Ethical Bean to provide great tasting coffee through sustainable operations," explains Bernhardt. "We've also applied for LEED gold standard certification for our roasting facility and we won't stop there. We will continue to push the standards for excellence in sustainability."
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold standard certification is a nationally accepted benchmark for green building design issued by the Canada Green Building Council.
Ethical Bean roasts only the finest 100-per-cent certified fair trade organic coffee beans from around the world. Their coffees taste great and ensure small-scale farmers in origin countries receive a fair price for their efforts, giving them every opportunity to sustain their businesses and provide a decent standard of living for their families.
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June 23, 2007
Pound for Sound
Buy a pound of Ethical Bean coffee and you might find a pair of weekend tickets to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival nestled inside.
Three pairs of tickets have been placed in bags of Festival Blend coffee and placed in retail stores. The tickets are valued at over $300 per pair.
Participating stores include Choices Markets, Capers Community Markets, East End Co-op, Donald's Markets, Drive Organics, East West Market, Mainly Organics, Stongs and 10,000 Villages (Commercial and West Broadway stores). The 30th VFMF takes place July 13 - 15.
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June 18, 2007
Ethical Bean Receives Spirit Award from Adoptive Families Association of BC
May 30, 2007 (Burnaby)−AFABC is pleased to announce the nominees and recipients for its 2007 Adoption Awards. All nominees are being recognized for the significant contribution they have made to adoption, pre- and post-adoptive families and children, and the AFABC.
"The Committee selected from an excellent slate of nominees," says P'nina Shames, Chair of the Awards Committee. Nominees were selected for one of five awards, including this year's new award, the Adoption in Action Award, honouring AFABC's pick for BC's best adoption employer of 2007.
The Spirit Award−Corporate
Recognizes a corporate donor who has made a significant and meaningful financial contribution, in cash and/or gift-in-kind donation, to AFABC.
Ethical Bean Coffee Company (2007 Co-recipient)
Pattison Outdoor Advertising
Safeway Burnaby Heights
Scotiabank (2007 Co-recipient)
The Steve Nash Foundation
Vancouver Courier
Congratulations to all nominees and recipients!
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March 1, 2007
Ethical Bean participates in Enginneers Without Borders
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March 1, 2007
Fair trade is improving coffee farmers' lives
In 2003, North Shore resident Lloyd Bernhardt cofounded the Vancouver-based Ethical Bean Coffee Company with his wife, Kim Schachte. He told the Straight he spent some time talking to VanderHoff and felt it was important for local coffee connoisseurs to start making the connection to the farmers.
"What fair trade essentially does is get rid of a lot of people who don't supply value," Bernhardt said. "It's tough work [for the farmers], who are typically in a co-op, each member with his own family farm of one to two hectares, while a group will get together and share a mill where they do the harvesting [from November to March]. It's lots of work and it encourages cooperation because individual farmers cannot afford their own mills."
Bernhardt said he was in the software business but spent four months in Guatemala when he and his wife adopted their seven-year-old daughter from that country. He began to make "instant connections" in his head while observing the Guatemalan coffee farmers.
"There are approximately 25 $4 double espressos in a pound of coffee," he said. "That's $100 of product. As a wholesaler paying $40 a pound, that looks pretty good. It also looks good to a roaster."
Until a few years ago, the farmer's share of that pound of coffee was US60 cents, Bernhardt said. Since that time, a minimum of US$1.46 has been installed to help the farmers avoid the vagaries of price fluctuations and to get them a fair price. It also proves that, as Zelmer and VanderHoff believe, there is flexibility along the chain to help farmers at no extra cost to the consumer.
"Of the local coffee sold in Vancouver and Canada as a whole, we're probably talking about one to two percent being fair trade," Bernhardt said. "Look at Starbucks and the institutional side; most of that is not fair trade. Starbucks has one product line, and another that is organic. Otherwise, they sell all that [non-fair-trade] coffee, so that's not a whole lot. But we are growing and we have to make sure that we do it in a way that is sustainable."
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February 1, 2007
Not Just a Hill of Beans
In British Columbia, many of the available fair trade coffees fall into the non-certified category, leaving The Vancouver Fair Trade Coffee Network (VFTCN) supporting both sides.
When faced with this dilemma, Ethical Bean—a Vancouver-based coffee company which boasts 100 per cent fair [trade] coffee—decided to sell only the TransFair certified product.
Part of what fair trade does is it gets rid of a lot of the middle men," said Ethical Bean owner Lloyd Bernhardt. "If you get rid of a lot of those guys, the price for the consumer stays about the same."
"The cool thing about this is the [roaster] pays for the certification and not the farmer," he said.
"It's not meant to be a charity or aything like that," he added. "It's meant to level the playing field."
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February 2007
Caffeine Consciousness
When you sip your morning cup, are you plagued by the thought that Third World farmers may have been exposed to DDT and are paid next to nothing? Even if you're a simple hedonist focused on your quality caffeine fix, Ethical Bean is for you. Its organic, fair-trade, pesticide-free coffee is grown using traditional methods that, unlike big agro-business, do not cause soil erosion or harm human beings and wildlife. The company's smaller footprint includes its new Vancouver "green" headquarters and compostable packaging for the coffee. In addition, the Festival and Family blends benefit the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and the Adoptive Families Association of B.C. Surprised that doing the right thing can taste so dark, rich, and full-bodied? Now you'll never know if that post-latte buzz comes from the caffeine or your contented conscience.
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January 7, 2007
2006 Child Aid Scholarships
This year we raised enough money thru our Gift of Education program to provide scholarships for 45 children in Guatemala. The scholarship includes tuition, books, uniforms, food and other school supplies.
Over the last three years Ethical Bean has provided 115 children with the opportunity of education. Thank you all for making this a success. Lloyd, Kim and their children are planning a trip to Guatemala this March to visit the school we support and the coffee co-op we buy from.
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November 7, 2006
Ethical Bean Coffee wins B.C. Organic Harvest Award
Folk Festival Blend is Best Non-Alcoholic Organic Beverage
For the second year in a row, Ethical Bean Coffee Company received top honours for Best Non-Alcoholic Organic Beverage by the Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia. The award was granted at the second annual B.C. Organic Harvest Awards specifically for the company's unique Folk Festival Blend, which provides partial proceeds directly to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
"We're honoured to be recognized as a leader in B.C.'s organics industry," says Ethical Bean owner Lloyd Bernhardt. "This award is particularly significant because the Folk Festival Blend represents a strong community partnership. Consumers can enjoy a great-tasting cup of coffee that's fair trade, organic and directly contributes to a leading local cultural event."
B.C. Organic Harvest Awards were granted in 15 categories to companies who displayed innovation and leadership in B.C.'s growing organics industry. All products entered were required to be certified organic in British Columbia by a recognized certification body. Hosting organization Certified Organics Associations of B.C. is the only government-approved body responsible for overseeing the B.C. Certified Organic Program.
Ethical Bean roasts only the finest 100-per-cent certified fair trade organic coffee beans from around the world. Ethical Bean coffees taste great and ensure small-scale farmers in origin countries receive a fair price for their efforts, giving them every opportunity to sustain their businesses and provide a decent standard of living for their families.
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October 12, 2006
Ethical Bean Nominated for the
2006 Ethics in Action Awards
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September 21, 2006
Locals have much to learn about espresso
While in Guatemala in 1999, the Ethical Bean's Bernhardt, his wife, Kim Schachte, and their adopted Guatemalan daughter visited coffee plantations and found that the farmers were paid just 66 cents a pound. The same beans often retail for $15 a pound or more at boutique stores around Vancouver. Middlemen and high markups, the family found, led to the price inflation, and they vowed to do something about it.
"It's embarrassing," Bernhardt said, "when you find you're doing something harmful in the world. You want to change that."
So he did. Ethical Bean, along with a handful of other local coffee roasters, including Jones's 49th Parallel, offer coffee that is independently certified by TransFair Canada. (Some outfits sell beans that claim to be fairly traded but have not been independently certified.)
The best coffee in Vancouver, Bernhardt said, should include the idea of best practices. This city is a leader in ethical purchasing, in trying to make the world a better place, he said. And fairly traded, organic coffee can be a part of that in Canada's coffee capital.
Read the full article.
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July 10, 2006
Ethical Bean Community Partnerships
Ethical Bean is excited to launch a new Community Blend program to benefit local
non-profit organizations.
Our chosen partners provide invaluable community services with small budgets in an increasingly expensive world.
Our existing 'give-back' program (via Child Aid) benefits children from a region in Guatemala where we source our coffee. Every December, $1 from every 1lb of coffee sold goes to sponsor kids through primary school (35 students in 2005).
Locally we wanted to acknowledge a few of the great organizations that we support by creating a blend in their honor. Secret blend ingredients are selected by the organizations by enduring lengthy, delicious coffee tasting sessions.
Each time you purchase our Festival Blend or Family Blend, a portion of the proceeds go directly to the host organization (details below).
Festival Blend: benefits the Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Family Blend: benefits the Adoptive
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July 6, 2006
Ethical Bean partners with Vancouver Folk Music Festival
"Times change, and the price of everything goes up," Chirinos told the Straight, noting that the festival's future depends on becoming more financially viable, partially through attracting youth and seeking sponsorships. One immediate change is the festival's partnership with the Ethical Bean Coffee Company; all profits from the organic, fair trade 'festival blend', which will be sold on-site, go directly to the festival. That, she said, is the kind of philosophically friendly sponsorship deal the festival is looking for."
Read the full article.
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January 25, 2006
Results are in: Ethical Bean's annual scholarship program to send 35 Guatemalan children to school in 2006
Ethical Bean made its largest-ever contribution to the Child-Aid scholarship program by donating $1 from every one pound bag of coffee purchased last month. |
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January 24, 2006
Local coffee company grows with
new hires
Burnaby-based Ethical Bean Coffee Company has hired two senior
managers in new positions to meet the needs of its expanding
business. Ethical Bean welcomes Elaine Arrowsmith, Director
of Business Development, and Jason Rennie, Production Manager.
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December 5, 2005
Your morning cup could help send a Guatemalan child to school
For the third year running, Ethical Bean is donating $1 for
every one-pound bag purchased in December to Child-Aid, a non-profit
organization that provides literacy programs and scholarships
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November 23, 2005
Ethical Bean Coffee Company wins at B.C. Organic Harvest Awards
Ethical Bean coffee received top honours this November as the
Best
Non-Alcoholic Organic Beverage at the 2005 B.C. Organic Harvest
Awards.
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November 8, 2005
Local coffee company spearheads Guatemalan relief effort
Local coffee company Ethical Bean is providing people throughout the Lower Mainland with an opportunity to help victims of Hurricane Stan in Guatemala. |
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June 29, 2005
Ethical Bean, changing the way people think about their cup of tea
Ethical Bean Coffee Company, B.C.'s only roaster of 100 per cent certified fair trade organic coffee, now offers a new ethical option for tea drinkers. Five varieties of Ethical Bean tea - Earl Grey, Assam, Darjeeling, Chai and Green - are all certified fair trade organic and have hit the shelves in Vancouver.
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April 12, 2005
Locally roasted fair-trade coffee beans Kosher, too
Ethical Bean Coffee Company, B.C.'s only roaster of 100-per-cent certified fair trade organic coffee, is also certified Kosher and Pareve by the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of British Columbia. |
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Proceeds from Ethical Bean's holiday season promotion sends
28 children to school
We are ecstatic that we were able to surpass
our goals and provide an education for these children. Thank
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Twelve Stores to Match Ethical
Bean's donation to Child-Aid to turn
$1 per pound into $2 per pound
Participating stores include Choices Community Markets, East End Food Co-Op, JD Farms, Gourmet Warehouse, Queensdale Market, Ruddy Potato, SPUD and Stong's.
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Ethical Bean
to repeat last holiday season's Guatemalan
scholarship donation
Ethical Bean will donate $1 per pound sold
in the month of December to Child-Aid. Last year we were able
to provide scholarships for seven children and this year we
hope to raise enough to send twenty! For more information or
to donate online, please visit child-aid.org
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December 16, 2004
Coffee for a Cause
Vancouver's Ethical Bean has your time-strapped, guilt-ridden self in mind with this holiday deal.
Buy a pound of their fair trade, organic coffee in December (from $14) and Ethical Bean will donate a dollar to Child-Aid, a non-profit organization that helps send children to school in Latin America.
So now unfortunate children are going to school, you feel like a million bucks, and you've got the perfect hostess gift for Christmas breakfast or Boxing Day brunch.
Giving doesn't get much better than that.
Last year's fundraising efforts purchased books, tuition and uniforms for seven Guatemalan children. This year, Ethical Bean aims to school 25 children. A year's education costs just US$100.
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December 22, 2004
Buy a coffee, send a child to school
Throughout December, one dollar for every pound sold is donated to Ethical Bean's Tuition Fundraising Campaign for school-aged children in Guatemala.
It costs about $115 to send a child to school. That includes tuition, books and clothing. Last year's initial campaign (a partnership with nonprofit Child-Aid) raised enough money to send seven children who otherwise would likely have received no education. This year's effort aims to triple that number. The chances look good, with several key players matching every dollar donated.
You can help too, of course-but there's more than just altruism at play here. The coffees are worth tasting. Ethical Bean produces excellent blends, including a nicely balanced, quite rounded, medium dark roast; and a wickedly good, assertive espresso blend.
"We're thrilled to have so many local retailers supporting us in the Tuition Campaign," says Bernhardt. "There's a very good chance we can send more than 25 children in Guatemala to school this year."
You can find Ethical Bean at the following conscientious stores or provisioners, all of whom are matching the Tuition Drive's efforts: Choices, SPUD, Queensdale Market, East End Food Coop, JD Farms, Gourmet Warehouse, Ruddy Potato and Stongs.
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| Hear what Don Genova has to say about Fair Trade May 19, 2004 |
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February
7, 2003
Read about Ethical Bean in Burnaby NOW
Search for child leads to coffee biz.
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Hear what Don Genova has to say about Ethical Bean
"good taste and good conscience" |
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| Ethical Bean provides scholarships for seven Guatemalan children
Ethical Bean raised enough money in December to send seven children to school for an entire year. In Guatemala, where children attend only three years of school on average, having an education is the key to moving out of poverty. To this end, the scholarship program enables students to attend grade school rather than work. Each scholarship finances school registration fees, uniforms, school supplies, shoes and textbooks, and when necessary, transportation costs and health care for a year. |
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December 25, 2003
Read about Ethical Bean in the North Shore Outlook
More beans,
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| This holiday
season help Ethical Bean send Guatemalan
children to school
Ethical Bean is donating $1 per pound
to Child-Aid through the month of December so that needy children
in Guatemala can attend school next year. |
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Ethical Bean and more, fresh to your
door
You can now order from
the entire selection of Ethical Bean coffees through Small Potatoes
Urban Delivery at www.spud.ca. Ethical Bean coffee and more
delivered to your door throughout the B.C. Lower Mainland, Whistler,
and the Sunshine Coast. |
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