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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 it. Check it out: Saving the tropics one sip at a time.
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“Sustainable coffee is produced on a farm with high biological diversity and low chemical inputs. It conserves resources, protects the environment, produces efficiently, competes commercially, and enhances the quality of life for farmers and society as a whole.” -Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, First Sustainable Coffee Congress
>Rainfall and cloud patterns in much of the tropics are a result of transpiration of tropical plants rather than broader weather patterns, and so clearing these moist forests has led to reduced cloud cover and rainfall in wide swaths of surrounding natural habitat as well as the plantations themselves.>
among many points, this is something i didn't that blows my mind. thanks for posting and congrats on the deserved recognition of your expertise and work!
Posted by: nathan | February 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Thanks, Nate!
Posted by: Julie | February 25, 2009 at 12:07 PM