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...
Global Health University
Dean has been asked by Yale to be a panelist for a Global Health University Webinar, for 500 to 1,000 participants, and to share his expertise on the subject of...
Coffee: The Drink That Changed America
Brew up a fresh cup, and click here to watch the entire documentary.
Enjoy!
Dean at Assumption College
Dean will be speaking at Assumption College in Worcester, MA tonight in a college-wide address sponsored by the local student chapter of Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
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,...
Spice Island Saga: Bringing Fair Trade to the Birthplace of Globalization
There was a time when the Spice Islands – a sprinkling of small islands at the arse end of the Indonesian archipelago – was the most valued real estate in...
Timor Update: Health, Education and Quality Coffee
Several years ago we worked with Cooperative Café Timor to create the first Direct Trade relationship in Timor, with the village of Atsabe. While everyone else, from Starbux to Equal...
Return to Sumatra
A wise old woman (ex-Mother-In-Law, actually!) once counseled me: “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.” That’s true enough regarding most corporate claims of sustainability,...
New Crop Haitian!
We have just received a new shipment of Haitian coffee from the wonderful Just Haiti project we have teamed up with. The first five hundred pounds we roasted went fast...
We Receive MLK Day Honors!
We are very humbled and happy to have been recognized on Martin Luther King Day for our commitment to social justice and Peace. In a ceremony in Orange, we were...