How Much Rainforest Fits in a Coffee Cup?

How Much Rainforest Fits in a Coffee Cup? at thedailygreen.com gives a rundown on a way for coffee lovers like myself to have their morning cup while helping to preserve the rainforest.

I buy most of my coffee beans from a local café, the Old Mill Bakery Café, that sells coffee-bean blends in bulk. Next time I visit, I'll ask whether their coffees are shade-grown. I imagine the owner of the place may not know ... or, even more likely, some of their coffee beans are and some are not. I believe the owner buys his coffees from a fairly large local-to-Baltimore roaster-blender of beans, Baltimore Coffee & Tea. Some of their coffees are Fair Trade Certified and Certified Organic, which attests that growers get fair prices and their workers a decent wage, but you have to read the fine print here to see that those coffees are also shade-grown.

Alas, the coffees that are in fact shade-grown do not include those which I usually buy. In addition to two decafs (I don't typically buy decafs) there are a New Guinea, a Peruvian Andes Gold, a Sumatra Mandheling Gayo Mountain, an Ethiopian Yirgachef, and a Mexican Altura.

I'll make a point of asking for them.