Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
Listen in on Dean and Peter M. Senge
For those of you Organizational Learning buffs - and you know who you are -there will be an interesting event on October 11th. Dean will be interviewed in a 90-minute...
Tadesse Comes to Town
We just finished a great visit here with Tadesse Meskela, Manager of the Oromia Cooperative in Ethiopia. I have known Tadesse since early 2003, when I was the first US...
Watch our java drops' television debut!
Dean's Beans java drops will be featured today, September 27th, on 30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray. Check the time in your local area on NBC to catch this culinary...
We've inaugurated our solar panels!
On Thursday September 7th, Dean’s Beans inaugurated its kickin’ 10KW solar panel system in a one of a kind wire cutting ceremony. The Dean’s Beans crew was joined by a...
Student Leaders and Dean's Beans Meet in Nicaragua!
I just returned from an amazing trip to Nicaragua where I joined the dedicated, fantastic, and very fun new student leaders of United Students for Fair Trade. The USFT crew...
Phoebe Hits Nicaragua!
Our compassionate yet tough CSO (Comprehensive Sustainability Officer), Phoebe, is in Nicaragua this week. She is accompanying a team from United Students for Fair Trade examining the impact of Fair...
Dean's Beans receives E-Chievement Award
Dean's Beans was recently awarded the E-Chievement Award from the Argosy Foundation and etown. The award recognizes those who are making a postive difference in their communities and beyond.
Drink Dean's Beans and Fight Global Warming!
I don't know what Al Gore drinks (he never answered my email), but we're as concerned about Global Warming as he is. In fact, I started working on the issue...
An Update from Papua-New Guinea
Sometimes you just don't know whatever happened as a result of your efforts, especially in the far flung areas of the world we work in, with terrible communications, time differences...
From the Highlands of Guatemala
(Hey! This is the first time anybody but me has made a blog entry. Guess we're growing up! Welcome Phoebe Sullivan to Team Dean's Beans. - Dean) I’m dancing in...
Papua-New Guinea - Back to the Future
Chiseled warriors in Bird of Paradise headdresses and spears, impassable mountain roads, stunning vistas, abundant gardens of coffee and vegetables. Papua-New Guinea is the final frontier of dreams, of images...
The Death Train - Part II (El Salvador)
When we visited the shelter for amputee victims of the Death Train in Tapachula, Mexico back in June, we created a program to help folks get economic training or jobs...