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January 29, 2009: Birds&Beans: a new Bird-Friendly coffee initiative

A new initiative to featuring Smithsonian Bird-Friendly certified coffee is being launched next week in the New England and New York area. "Birds&Beans: the good coffee" will be sold by subscription, and promoted via "Voices for the Birds" talks by...

January 24, 2009: HowStuffWorks: coffee videos

The Discovery Channel program "HowStuffWorks" had an episode about coffee. There are short (under 3 or 4 minutes) video clips from the show on their web site. Some I thought were especially good were: Hand picking coffee Organic coffee Coffee...

January 20, 2009: Product review: Forte Promotions cafe set

I love coffee, therefore I love coffee preparation gadgets. One thing I learned early on was that each method of preparation can bring out different flavors in coffee. I tend to make coffee one of five ways: drip, pour-over, Cafe...

January 17, 2009: My year in beans: Winners, losers, and the future

In a previous post I mentioned that I had kept track of all the coffee I had in 2008. That post emphasized the low price ($2.70 a day) of drinking only really good, sustainable, specialty coffee. Here, I'd like to...

January 13, 2009: Bird-Friendly fees: where do they go?

Roasters that sell Bird-Friendly coffee, certified by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, pay a per-pound fee to Smithsonian (around US$0.25, I believe). These fees go to support bird conservation research and education, with an emphasis on coffee as bird habitat....

January 9, 2009: Research: Ethiopian garden coffee preserves epiphyte biodiversity

Home garden coffee as a repository of epiphyte biodiversity in Ethiopia. 2008. K. Hylander and S. Nemomissa. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6:524-528. Nearly all the work that's been done examining the relationship between shade coffee and biodiversity has...

January 6, 2009: My year in beans: The cost of coffee

At the beginning of 2008, I started keeping track of all the coffee I purchased. Since I drink (and share) a lot of coffee -- all specialty coffee and some quite expensive -- I was curious how many kinds I...

January 5, 2009: Help promote sustainable coffee!

I'm not much on awards personally, but I was pleased to find out that Coffee & Conservation is one of ten finalists for Best Food Blog, out of dozens of nominees, in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Every vote for Coffee...

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