by Nicole Dennis Shapna is no ordinary business. It’s not run by power and money hungry business men who live in luxury while their employees remain impoverished. It doesn’t produce a cheap product at the cost of irreversible environmental degradation. Shapna is an initiative to empower marginalized farmers in Bangladesh, Uganda, and the Dominican Republic, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coffee’
Shapna Coffee and Tea: A New Business Model
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, community, organic, tea on March 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Campus Coffee Goes Organic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, organic, Organic Coffee Collaboration, OTA on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I thought you might all be interested in this article, released by OTA in August, which is a testament to the fact that all of our hard work is paying off. (Not that you didn’t know that already!) Thoughts? Increasing number of colleges offer organic coffee to keep students and administrators perking along while minimizing [...]
Public Appeal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, fair trade, Manhattan College, organic on July 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Manhattan College is a fairly small school with students hailing from a wide variety of demographics. On campus, interest in food reform happens to be concentrated within a very small minority of students. Fortunate to have found each other at all, our little Fair Trade/Food Reform coalition decided, upon organizing, that gaining public appeal and educating our [...]
Say that your main crop is the forest: Providence College and community relationships
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, community garden, fair trade, northeast, organic on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My name is Kerry, and I am a public and community service major at Providence College, which means that I spend a lot of my time in the community of Providence, Rhode Island, engaging in reflective volunteer service. Last year, I acted as a community liaison between my college and City Farm, a ¾ acre [...]
