Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
A Storm's a Brewin'!
How the Coffee Industry Creates Income Inequality Cafes and coffee have historically been associated with dissent and fomenting positive change. Yet in the past decade the industry has actually added...
2015 Year At A Glance
2015 started with a new website that was so poorly designed that we actually lost ground for the first time in twenty-two years! Sorry about that, folks, but we spent...
50 Shades of Green
Is Where You Sit Really Where You Stand? I graduated Williams College in 1975 BC (Before Computers). At that time, many of us wanted to dedicate our lives to saving...
Updates from the Field 2014
There were a lot of ups and downs this past year, as coffee price fluctuations and the Roya (fungal rust) epidemic hit our partners hard, especially throughout the Americas. Fortunately,...
GMO Labeling Legislation
Off to the State House in the morning to testify in favor of GMO labeling legislation here in Massachusetts. Consumers have a right to know what's in their food!
Dean Receives Nobel Prize for Business!
Last week the Business for Peace Foundation, based in Oslo, Norway, announced its 2013 Business for Peace Honorees. Eighty nominations from fifty countries, five Honorees and Dean was the only...