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February 26, 2009: Coffee review: Starbucks Organic Shade Grown Mexico
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #41. Starbucks Organic Shade Grown Mexico is produced by around 900 small farmers on 3200 ha of land in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas [1]. Many of the...
February 24, 2009: Shade coffee article from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
BirdScope is the newsletter for members of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, one of the world's best known bird research, education, and citizen science organizations. This latest issue has a short article on shade coffee. Yours truly is quoted in...
February 21, 2009: Birds & Beans now available
The Birds & Beans: The Good Coffee web site is now up and running. Since I posted about this initiative, which offers only Smithsonian Bird-Friendly certified coffee, there have been a few tweaks and changes. For a limited time, you...
February 17, 2009: Green Mountain to fund climate change projects
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will award four grants of $200,000 each to organizations with ideas to combat climate change in four core areas: transportation-related emissions (including GMCR's product shipping), threats to coffee-growing communities (enormous, given that climate change is already...
February 12, 2009: Research: Coffee certification and bird conservation in Ethiopia
Ethiopian coffee cultivation -- Implications for bird conservation and environmental certification. 2008. A. D. Gove, K. Hylander, S. Nemomisa, and A. Shimelis. Conservation Letters 1:208-216. This is probably the first peer-reviewed paper specifically about coffee growing/shade coffee and birds in...
February 8, 2009: Fair Trade environmental standards
In spite of what many people believe, Fair Trade certification alone does not automatically mean or guarantee that rigorous environmental standards were followed, or that the coffee was grown under shade. Here's a summary of the Fair Trade environmental standards.
February 5, 2009: Trader Joe's coffee
Trader Joe's offers many varieties of private label brands of coffee. For the most part, they are very secretive about their suppliers, and don't disclose specific origins of their coffee.
February 2, 2009: When birders* drink Folger's
An editorial recently appeared in the scientific journal Conservation Biology. It was titled "When swordfish conservation biologists eat swordfish." As the title implies, it's a riff on the hypocrisy of avowed conservationists when their own lifestyles are inconsistent with the...
February 2, 2009: Welcome, nature bloggers
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