Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
United Students, United Cause
I’ve just gotten back from a fair trade event put on by the United Students for Fair Trade. It was a convergence of eager and progressive students from around the...
Danger: Ethical Consumerism
I've just read a blog from TreeHugger.com entitled "Why Corporate Fat-Cats Love Ethical Consumerism." Although I can't think of a title quite as catchy, I've been thinking a lot about...
Small business agrees: close tax loopholes for Big Corporations
Dean has been working with a network of forward thinking business owners, executives and investors to close tax loop-holes for large corporations and the wealthy. This report, where Dean is...
The NY Times has crush on Dean
It seems the New York Times has had a crush on Dean's Beans lately, quoting him in two articles in the past few weeks. Here's one about the current debates...
So Who Can You Trust?
Last time I blogged about the rift in the fair trade movement caused by Transfair USA's (now Fairtrade USA) decision to leave the international fair trade organization (FLO), go it...
Farewell to Fair Trade Certified?
Dark days have come to the fair trade movement. The social movement, which has worked for years to change international trade for the benefit of small-scale farmers, has recently taken...
Johnny Depp, Fair Trade and Me - A Cautionary Tale
After thirty-five years of grassroots activism and development work, you'd think I would know how to get a point across now and then. But this news from Amazonian northern Peru...
Indonesian Cannibal Looking for Love!
I come across a lot of strange things in the coffeelands, but this one takes the cake (or at least the lady fingers!)
:http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/who-wants-marry-cannibal
Javatrekker in China!
I guess people everywhere are hungry for good news and great coffee! Javatrekker will be published in Chinese on September first! Look for the book tour!
Our Coffee and Fukushima Radiation
Many customers have asked whether any of our coffee communities have or will be affected by the radiation leaks from the Fukushima reactors in Japan. I have done quite a...
UMass Makes a Case Out of Dean's Beans!
UMass Amherst management students spent last semester observing operations and interviewing everyone here at the roasterie in Orange to create a major case study of Dean's Beans as a socially...
What is the Value of Your Values?
I just got off the phone with a company claiming to work with PBS Biography, a show I have watched since I was a little kid (that's how I learned...