Ian on September 24th, 2009

As you read articles on fair trade and organic coffee you will see positive and negative comments. Many of the negative comments are based on assumptions such as, “what difference can one person make?”, “what difference does it make when they’ll ship via polluting transport modes?” “what difference does it make if I drive an [...]

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Ian on September 23rd, 2009

How many cups of coffee do you get from a pound of fair trade coffee beans?
Well, having a Bachelor of Mathematics, I couldn’t resist weighing in with some calculations of my own (apologies to any one out there who happened to do the same math that I’m going to do, its either purely coincidence or [...]

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Ian on September 20th, 2009

My name is Ian Smith. I have started this blog to look into and discuss different aspects of Fair Trade Coffee. In most cases, I will not go indepth on anything. My plan is to keep posts light and lively, short and informative. I will attempt to forward guests to places that they can find [...]

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