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Shade-Grown, Organic Coffees Certified By The Rainforest Alliance

NEW YORK and SAN LEANDRO, Calif.
"Making the switch from full sun farmed coffee to shade-grown, sustainably
certified Audubon Coffee empowers consumers with the knowledge that their
everyday purchasing decisions make a positive difference in the lives of
birds, wildlife and farmers," said Sandy Pinto, director of licensing at
Audubon .

About the National Audubon Society
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing
on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and
the earth's biological diversity.org."
Charlottesville Virginia's new Charlottesville Waldorf School is in the
midst of a $6. It allows members of our community, and
communities across the country to be part of a brand new business paradigm
that is at once local, sustainable and affordable .

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2 Million Capital Campaign Will Provide National Example of Sustainability
for Schools, Corporations and Individuals
for Generations to Come

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. For the past 20 years, the school has taught environmental
responsibility as an integral part of its curriculum.
This growth in assets is increasing economic opportunities for lower-income
communities and spurring industry developments that are making it easier for a
broad range of investors to participate in this expanding field.socialinvest. It is dedicated to the
concept , practice, and growth of socially responsible investing.

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And assets in community investing expanded even more dramatically over the
past 10 years.3 billion managed
for individual clients and another $1.

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To learn more about Audubon, call 800-274-4201 or
visit http://www.29 trillion
in 2005, while the broader universe of assets under professional management
increased less than 249 percent from $7 trillion to $24. There has been real growth in the
number of shareholder resolutions filed on social, environmental and
corporate-governance issues and support for them rose dramatically over the
last ten years.

* Assets in community investing institutions rose 40 percent from $14
billion in 2003 to $20 billion in 2005.

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5 trillion in assets, socially screened separate
accounts managed for individual and institutional clients constituted
the bulk of SRI assets tracked in 2005, including $17.

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The line of Audubon(TM) Coffees feature premium products harvested by
small growers on environmentally sustainable farms using traditional,
shade-grown techniques. For more information, contact MigratoryBirdDay@aol.6 billion found in this report.

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These techniques not only preserve a way of life for
farmers, they also help protect the hundreds of species of birds and other
wildlife that use coffee plantations as their home.

About the Rainforest Alliance
The mission of the Rainforest Alliance is to protect ecosystems and the
people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land-use practices,
business practices and consumer behavior.
Sustainable coffee farming is at the center of its efforts to save
rainforests, wildlife and to promote cohesive and progressive communities. (the nation's top
seller of 100% organically grown coffee), Fairwinds Coffee, Cunningham's
Coffee, Pleasant Hill Farms Quality Coffee and East India Coffee and Tea.
For more information, please call 1-800-829-1300 or visit http://www. The certification is based on a checklist of environmental
factors in six categories: sustainable sites , energy and atmosphere, water
efficiency, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and
innovation and design process. And community investing is surging at a meteoric rate as an
option for investors who want to see their assets make a direct and tangible
difference in the U. In 1995 , $12 billion
in assets were found in socially screened funds.

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Your choice of coffee could make a
big difference to birds, wildlife, and traditional coffee growers who depend
on the habitat coffee plantations provide.
One-hundred-percent certified organic, shade-grown, and certified
sustainable by the Rainforest Alliance, Audubon Coffee is available in Audubon
French Roast, Audubon Breakfast Blend, Audubon Rainforest Blend, and Audubon
Decaf blends. We invite all
concerned Americans to play a part in our effort and help to positively impact
our environment and those who live in it for generations of Americans to
come.

For more information contact Marianne Lund, Chairperson, Charlottesville
Waldorf Foundation at 434-825-1897 or visit their website at
http: //www. Socially and
environmentally screened mutual funds have experienced substantial growth in
their number and diversity of products as well as the social issues they
consider.29 trillion in SRI identified in 2005 reflects 9.

* With more than $1.

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-based Rogers Family Companies today
include San Francisco Bay Coffee, The Organic Coffee Co.com
or http://www.

International Migratory Bird Day celebrates the incredible journeys of
migratory birds between their breeding grounds in North America and their
wintering grounds in Mexico, Central, and South America. "The process of going from a green project to a LEED
Platinum building," Jones said, "expands the issue of environmentally -friendly
design into a national debate on how a building can challenge us all to
analyze the connections between resource management and industrial
manufacturing.org.

* Shareholder resolutions on social and environmental issues increased
more than 16 percent from 299 proposals in 2003 to 348 in 2005.

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Audubon Coffee reflects the goal of Audubon, the Rogers Family Coffee
Companies and the Rainforest Alliance to promote environmentally and socially
responsible products that protect bird species, wildlife habitat, and
dwindling rainforests, and which raise the quality of life for people in the
world's coffee growing regions. Starting with Thomas
Jefferson himself , Charlottesville has a long and well-documented legacy of
groundbreaking thought and activism, and this is a perfect opportunity to
showcase those qualities to the world. In 1995, community investing assets totaled $4 billion, and
have since grown almost 400 percent to the $19.

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5 percent increase in assets invested in SRI mutual funds; a 16 percent
jump in social and corporate governance shareholder resolutions (and
significantly higher levels of support for such proxy measures); and a 40
percent boost in funds invested in community investing.7 billion in 2005, far outpacing the overall growth of mutual funds in
the US. The
$2.

* Mainstream money managers are increasingly incorporating social and
environmental factors into their investing.

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These exceptional farmers use traditional techniques to grow beans
as nature intended -- under a lush canopy of tropical trees, habitat for
hundreds of bird species such as toucans and migratory warblers, and
rainforest wildlife such as jaguars and tree frogs.

U.S. Socially Responsible Investment Assets Grew Faster Than Rest of Investment World Over Last Decade

Social
resolutions reaching a vote rose more than 22 percent, from 145 in 2003
to 177 in 2005.

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Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day May 14 With a Cup of Audubon(TM) Coffee

The event, which
takes place on the second Saturday in May each year, encourages bird
conservation and increases awareness of birds through hikes, bird watching,
information about birds and migration, public events, and a variety of other
education programs. "At the same time,
the project allows us to teach by example and to promote a new, sensible
movement among other schools, corporations and individuals.
According to the Forum report, the $2.

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auduboncoffeeclub.org or write to Audubon, 700 Broadway, New York, New York,
10003 .

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'Brew The Right Thing' for Birds Saturday May 14 With Rogers Family Co. The introduction
of Audubon Coffee helps reverse this destructive trend.

Contacts:
Sandy Pinto - National Audubon Society, 212-979-3065
Sarah Obraitis - Rainforest Alliance, 212-677-1900
Jim Zelinski - Zelinski Public Relations, For Rogers Family Coffee
Companies, 415-882-7787 or 415-420-6050 (cell )
Jon B Rogers, Jim Rogers or Pete Rogers, Rogers Family Coffee Companies,
1-800-829-1300 or 510-638-1300

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Jean Pogge, the Social Investment Forum's Community Investing Program vice
chair and senior vice president of Mission-Based Deposits for ShoreBank in
Chicago, said: "Community investing experienced tremendous growth from 2003 to
2005.4 trillion in total assets under professional management tracked in
Nelson Information's Directory of Investment Managers. SRI separate account assets have
increased 10-fold from the $150 billion identified in 1995. The Forum Foundation provides cutting-edge research on the trends,
practice, performance, and impact of social investing.

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Saturday May 14 marks this global
avian-awareness day and the National Audubon Society, Rainforest Alliance and
Rogers Family Coffee Companies encourage coffee lovers everywhere to think
before they drink today and year-round. Audubon's national network of
community-based nature centers and chapters, scientific and educational
programs, and advocacy on behalf of areas sustaining important bird
populations, engage millions of people of all ages and backgrounds in positive
conservation experiences. It will feature a
completely integrated "green " design featuring straw bale construction, a
rammed earth wall, a living roof, geothermal heating and cooling, water
reclamation and passive solar technologies.S.
The building is designed by Charlottesville architect and Waldorf School
parent Ted Jones."
The campaign, called "Building a School, LEEDing a Community," is geared
not only toward building the school, but toward galvanizing a community,
Tremaine said. It has grown from a 12-
student kindergarten program to a full 180 -student elementary program
educating nursery through eighth grade.16 trillion in 2003.

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Together the companies supply millions of pounds of coffee, including "Fair
Trade Certified" -- and tea each year to discriminating customers worldwide.naturefriendly. Total socially responsible investment
assets rose more than 258 percent from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.4 trillion over the
same period.

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To
learn more, visit http://www.

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com or by calling
800-770-9381. These farms can be found
throughout Latin America.

About the Rogers Family Companies
One of the nation's leading family-owned and operated roasters of branded
gourmet coffee, The San Leandro-Calif.com. Community investing assets have
nearly quintupled from the $4 billion identified a decade ago.

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To boost production, many
coffee farmers have switched to full sun farming and destroyed native shade
trees, leaving little possibility for wildlife habitation.

Charlottesville Waldorf School Continues Campaign to Become 'Greenest School in America'

, The "best place to live in
America" is on its way to featuring the "Greenest School in America.
"This is a project that comes from a deep commitment to the environment
that is an integral part of the fabric of the Waldorf education," said Sarah
Tremaine, Chair of the Charlottesville Waldorf Foundation. Green Building Council and reserved only for those
projects and builders who adhere to the ultimate standards of environmental
responsibility. Among the signs of an ongoing
growth from 2003 to 2005 in socially responsible investing are the following:
an 18. SRI mutual funds have grown from $12 billion in 1995 to
$178.4 percent of the
$24.

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Like all coffee roasted, distributed, and sold by the Rogers
Family Coffee Companies, Audubon Coffee is grown on farms where the Rogers
Family mandates protection of nature and provides direct, continuous aid for
thousands of coffee farm workers and their families. "We are creating a school that will be a model of
affordability in green design. A growing number
of institutional investors are embracing the philosophy of active ownership
with the companies in their portfolios.S.5 percent increase over the $151 billion
tracked in 2003. Institutional investors that filed or co-filed
resolutions on social or environmental issues controlled $703 billion in
assets in 2005, a 57-percent rise over the $448 billion in assets
counted in 2003.

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Rogers, president of the Rogers Family Coffee Companies.org.2 million capital campaign designed to help the school become
the first LEED Platinum elementary school in the country.
Tim Smith, president of the Social Investment Forum and senior vice-
president at Walden Asset Management, said: "Over the past decade, SRI has
become a major force in the U. and around the world."

Other highlights of the report included the following:

* Nearly one out of every ten dollars under professional management in the
United States today is involved in socially responsible investing. Over the same period, the number of mutual funds and
pooled products tracked edged up from 200 to 201.

* Socially and environmentally screened mutual funds have experienced
substantial growth in the number and diversity of products and screens
offered.org) is the national
trade association for the social investment industry .

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Produced and packaged by the Rogers Family Coffee Companies for the
National Audubon Society and certified by the Rainforest Alliance,
environmentally and socially responsible Audubon Coffee is offered at select
retail outlets such as Andronico's in the San Francisco Bay Area, gourmet
stores , pet stores, supermarkets, through corporate service, through the
Audubon Coffee Club http://www . Companies, cooperatives and
landowners that participate in our programs meet rigorous standards for
protecting the environment, wildlife, workers and local communities.sfbaycoffee. Mainstream money managers are increasingly incorporating social,
environmental and governance factors into their investing . In total, community investing expanded by two-fifths over the period.

ABOUT THE FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (http://www. The Forum's
more than 500 members include financial planners , banks, mutual fund
companies, research companies, foundations, and community investing
institutions .

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Audubon Premium Shade Grown Coffee is made exclusively from carefully
selected Arabica beans cultivated by farmers in the world's premier coffee
regions.
"We hope that Audubon Coffee will help increase awareness and support for
coffee that's grown in an environmentally and socially responsible manner,"
said Jon B.audubon.rainforest-alliance."
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is
awarded by the U."
The Charlottesville Waldorf School is one of 900 Waldorf Schools
worldwide. Report Finds Total SRI Grew 260 Percent Since 1995, SRI Mutual Funds Grew
15-Fold; Nearly 1 in 10 Dollars Now in SRI Screening,
Shareholder Advocacy, Community Investing

WASHINGTON, Socially responsible investment (SRI)
assets grew faster than the entire universe of managed assets in the United
States during the last 10 years, according to the Social Investment Forum's
fifth biennial report on SRI trends . financial marketplace."
Alisa Gravitz, vice president of the Social Investment Forum and executive
director, Co-op America, said: "It's clear that the combination of competitive
performance, screening , and advocacy on behalf of their investors offered by
SRI mutual funds are making them an increasingly attractive option for a wide-
range of investors.

* Assets in socially screened mutual funds and other pooled products rose
to $179 billion in 2005, an 18.49 trillion under management in
institutional client accounts.
The Social Investment Forum Foundation is a national nonprofit
organization providing research and education on socially responsible
investing.

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, Don 't let
International Migratory Bird Day fly by this year without giving careful
consideration to your choice of coffee.29 trillion in total assets under
management using one or more of the three core socially responsible investing
strategies -- screening, shareholder advocacy, and community investing -- is
up from a total of $2. More and more investors are turning to SRI mutual funds because they
protect investors' needs better than the conventional industry: providing
competitive returns , protecting them from unethical and irresponsible
corporate conduct, and mobilizing their investments for a better future.