“For many in higher education, coffee is a vital fuel for learning and creativity. How a campus relates to coffee can reveal a lot about where the campus really stands in relation to social justice and sustainability. Geographer and James Hayes-Bohanan describes a future in which Bridgewater State University lives its values with campus cafes that are national models for the just treatment of producers and healthy relationships with the Earth.  Known as the Coffee Maven, he has come to view our relationship to coffee as a strong indicator of our relationships with the wider world.”

Tags: pollution, sustainability, environment, resources, economic, labor, globalization.

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