Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. to Award $800,000 in Grants to Find Solutions

WATERBURY, VT., February 16, 2009 — Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is looking for potential solutions to one of the world's most pressing challenges: climate change.

The Vermont-based company has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) from nonprofit organizations working to change climate change, with specific focus on four areas: transportation-related emissions, threats to coffee-growing communities, building political will, and individual empowerment. GMCR will award four $200,000 grants, each payable over five years. The grants will be presented to four organizations — one for each of the four focus areas.