The new coffee provider has created a buzz on campus.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters was selected during a coffee-tasting sponsored by the Retail Planning Committee of the Harper Center for Living and Learning. Green Mountain began providing coffee on March 3.

“Green Mountain Coffee is important because Creighton has been very dedicated to serve fair trade coffee,” said Christine Krin, marketing director of University Dining Services.

According to the Global Exchange Web site, fair trade means an equitable and fair partnership between consumers in North America and producers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The chief concern of the fair trade movement has been to ensure that the vast majority of the world’s coffee farmers get a fair price for their harvests in order to achieve a decent living wage. To be recognized as fair trade, a company places the fair trade logo on its product.

Previously, Creighton was using Pura Vida, but the small company couldn’t meet Creighton’s demand for coffee.

“We wanted to make sure the company was fair trade and would be a good match with Creighton and Sodexho,” Krin said.

Green Mountain Coffee has also helped with promoting its name around campus, including donating items to recent CCSJ auctions. Along with the new coffee, Dining Services has also introduced Green Mountain Coffee’s ecotainer cup, also called a corn cup. The new eco-friendly cup designed for hot beverages uses a lining made from corn instead of petrochemicals. According to Green Mountain’s Web site, since the launch last summer, over 100 million cups have been used in the marketplace, saving almost a quarter million pounds of petrochemical plastic.

“Green Mountain Coffee has been a great partner and is the best fit,” Krin said.