The old custom theme on this site finally succumbed to advanced technology. All the content here is intact, it just looks sad and I don’t know how long it will take me to improve both the appearance and ease of use.
Author: JulieCraves
K-Cup recycling: I told you so
Keurig settles lawsuits regarding the recyclability of K-Cups.
Deforestation from commodity coffee drags on
The New York Times Magazine published a well-written account about the ongoing illegal coffee growing in Sumatra’s Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. The article focuses on the Wildlife Conservation Society’s investigations into continued forest clearing in the park by small farmers who sell their coffee at rock-bottom prices to middlemen, who then sell to large…
Birders still in the dark about shaded Bird-Friendly coffee
A group of authors have an open-access paper in the journal People and Nature, a publication of the British Ecological Society: Tapping birdwatchers to promote bird-friendly coffee consumption and conserve birds. The authors noted there are 45 million birdwatchers in the U.S. alone, and they are considered the primary target of coffee certification schemes. They…