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Forbes March 29, 2015 Your morning coffee could help give birth to a new generation of trees and plants.   Reduce. Reuse. Grow., a San Luis Obispo-based startup, has pioneered a new type of coffee cup — one encased with seeds.  After you trash the cup (in a specified bin), the company will ensure that those cups are planted in three nature parks in California. Given that Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day, amounting to 140 billion cups annually, this could create systemic change — that is, if the big coffee brands (ahem,  Starbucks  ), were to adopt the new technology.   Alex Henige, a Cal Poly student who was majoring in Landscape Architecture with a minor in Packaging and Industrial technologies, wanted to see a solution to our growing consumerism.  He picked coffee cups, a daily consumption that was amounting to a massive pile of waste. But what about recycled cups? Is that not good enough? The startup argues th...

Originating from the Kaffa region of Ethiopia, coffee was introduced to Turks in the early Ottoman period. Gradually,it gained an important place in Ottoman culture and became popular among patrons of coffee houses in Istanbul EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI Daily Sabah March 26, 2015 I n the past, foreign travelers observed that Turks drank Turkish coffee when they were ill, and if they did not get well, they wrote their will and waited for death to come. Indeed, Turks did not only drink Turkish coffee for pleasure but also as a remedy. In fact, Turkish coffee has become an internationally known drink over time. Coffee originates from the Kaffa region in Ethiopia. According to the legend, a shepherd observed that the goats were jumping up and down and wandering around the meadow more energetically than ever. Out of curiosity, he investigated the situation and discovered that the animals were behaving strangely because of the plant they were eating. He tried it himself, and th...

Ethiopia Beats Coffee Export Target With Higher Than Planned Revenue Country gains 307.5 million dollars with an actual export of 73,227.9 tns while expecting 269 million dollars from 73,593.5 tns of coffee. By Brook Abdu Addis Fortune  (Addis Ababa) March 9, 2015 The half fiscal year of 2014/15 saw a success in terms of achievement in the export of coffee although it leaves uncertainty in the future of the coffee market. The country's plan for the first six months of the budget year was to export 73,593.5tn of coffee and gain an income of 269 million dollars. The actual export was 73,227.9tn, from which a higher than targeted revenue of 307.5 million dollars was gained. "The gain from the export exceeds the plan because the international coffee price was better in the export period," said Getahun Bikora, coffee marketing director at the Ministry of Trade (MoT). This year's plan of the Ministry is to export 235,950tn of coffee to gain 8...

By Larry Husten   - Contributor Forbes March 3, 2015 Once again the media has swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker. Following the publication of a   a new study in the journal  Heart  last night, hundreds of news reports have now appeared extolling the miraculous benefits of coffee. Here’s just one typical headline from the  Los Angeles Times : “Another reason to drink coffee: It’s good for your heart, study says.” But a careful look at the study and previous research on coffee makes clear that this type of reporting is completely unwarranted. As I’ve written previously, the media loves to jump on studies like this and inform the public that, say,   intense running is as bad as being sedentary . These sort of upbeat, highly positive stories making simple recommendations based on observational studies that are in no way capable of proving cause and effect are dangerous. Unfortunately, the journalists often recei...