A Cup of Ambition

With our world-wide caffeine addiction, coffee beans have become the number one traded agricultural commodity. Coffee trees are front-line environmental saviors as CO2 sinks, yet as climates are disrupted, trees will die. Coffee production is expected to drop 40 percent in the next ten years. Researchers are scrambling to breed heartier varieties that can withstand the challenges, and innovative approaches will ensure morning rituals will continue for the lucky few of wealth. As Climate Change heats up, your coffee consumption may have to cool down. […]

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Pura Vida!

Step off the bus and smell the air. You can feel in your bones that it’s different here. Over 10,000 species of plants and trees are breathing in CO2 and breathing out oxygen. Costa Rica is one of the most biologically diverse pockets on the planet. Ancient trees host green ferns, mosses, and vines, layered like filo dough, all grappling upward, searching for the exchange of sunlight for energy. […]

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