Brooklyn-Based Tea Company Profits Help Support Ecuadorian Communities
NEW YORK (WLNY) -- Call it capitalism with a conscience.
Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie, now both 27, hatched a plan while at Brown University to carve out a piece of the $6.5 billion tea industry.
The project would not only make them money -- but would help thousands of indigenous farmers in the Amazon.
Runa, the Brooklyn-based beverage company, makes tea -- and now a new energy drink --out of guayusa, an ancient Amazonian plant with as much caffeine as coffee and twice the antioxidants of green tea.