Javatrekker's Journal: Our Blog
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...
Tracking the Death Train (Chiapas, Mexico)
Most of us have gotten pretty numbed by statistics, especially around tragedy. When I tell people that over 600,000 Latin American coffee farmers lost their land and their livelihoods over...
My Life as a Pirate-Part II
Our days began at 4 a.m., when an open speedboat would pick us up for the one hour ride to the set. It was actually a nice way to wake...
My New Life as a Pirate
O.K., so you think I'm this do-gooder guy who spends all his waking hours trying to make the world a better place. Well, I do aspire to that, however, there...
Into Africa-Creating Fair Trade in Kenya
Sorry that I haven't updated the zine. I have been in Rome and now Kenya for the past week trying to create a fair trade and organic certification system through...
Update and Thank You From the Farmers
Yesterday, I wired over $11,000 of your donations from this site directly to the farmers in Sumatra. As you may have heard, the Indonesian government is not allowing foreign aid...
An Update on Sumatra
Over the past week, I have done little else but raise money, answer emails for customers, speak to the media make connection between aid groups, keep in touch with the...