If you want that morning cup of java to taste good and feel good, make it an Ethical Bean brew. Not only are the beans Certified Fair Trade, Certified Organic and shade-grown. Not only is their facility carbon-neutral. Not only are they a local success story. They're a local success story making great coffee and making a huge difference to disadvantaged kids in Guatemala. Because of them, 100 kids will get to attend school for the first time. They're also funding the development of a Village for orphaned and abandoned children.

You might remember that every December the company donates $1 from each unit of coffee sold to the Vancouver-based Kids to School program (a charity started by Ethical Bean founders Lloyd Bernhard and Kim Schachte).  In 2008, they rose $21,949 for the program, blasting their 2007 record of $14,500. This year, the company is overjoyed to report that the 2009 total was a whopping $32,000. So a big thanks to all of you who drank really ethical coffee as you were doing your Christmas shopping, dodging raindrops, reading by the fire, and recovering from a late night of festivities.