Sustainable drinking
No, this is not a post about how to mix drinks so you don't get wasted- sorry.
I'm studying for my 9am exam tomorrow morning. This course is about the impacts that humans have on the environment simply from our eating habits. It's amazing and heartbreaking to find out about how much our eating habits and living styles hurt the environment. Now, I love coffee...and I also really like the environment and nature. So
in the process of researching my semi-essay question, I came upon this website, http://www.shadecoffee.org/shade-coffee.cfm. It talks about why it's important to buy to shade grown coffee.
Most commercially sold coffee is sun grown..which means monoculture..which mens heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides...which means it will cause soil erosion, chemical run off, contaminating ground and surface waters and eutrophication.
NB. top soil takes thousands of years to form...it's slowly made from rocks through primary succession. So once it's gone, it's gone. The rate at which it's replenish is FAR slower than the rate that it's made.
The alternative to this industrial way of farming and the way nature intended is shade grown..which means that coffee is grown in a polyculture environment, mimicking the natural rainforest. This will not only prevent soil erosion and less dependency on fertilizers/pesticides (organically grown) but ALSO creates a habitat for migratory birds. They're also fair trade!
The website also has a link for shade coffee distributors in your local area. For those friends from the GTA, it's here, http://www.birdsandbeans.ca/
Anyone want to get together for some coffee? =)
I'm studying for my 9am exam tomorrow morning. This course is about the impacts that humans have on the environment simply from our eating habits. It's amazing and heartbreaking to find out about how much our eating habits and living styles hurt the environment. Now, I love coffee...and I also really like the environment and nature. So
in the process of researching my semi-essay question, I came upon this website, http://www.shadecoffee.org/shade-coffee.cfm. It talks about why it's important to buy to shade grown coffee.
Most commercially sold coffee is sun grown..which means monoculture..which mens heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides...which means it will cause soil erosion, chemical run off, contaminating ground and surface waters and eutrophication.
NB. top soil takes thousands of years to form...it's slowly made from rocks through primary succession. So once it's gone, it's gone. The rate at which it's replenish is FAR slower than the rate that it's made.
The alternative to this industrial way of farming and the way nature intended is shade grown..which means that coffee is grown in a polyculture environment, mimicking the natural rainforest. This will not only prevent soil erosion and less dependency on fertilizers/pesticides (organically grown) but ALSO creates a habitat for migratory birds. They're also fair trade!
The website also has a link for shade coffee distributors in your local area. For those friends from the GTA, it's here, http://www.birdsandbeans.ca/
Anyone want to get together for some coffee? =)
posted by A Mandar @ 4:08 p.m.
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