Introducing Café Solar®! A New Model of Sustainable Coffee Production from the “Direct Trade” partnership of Mesoamerican Development Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the COMISUYL Cooperative in Yoro,…
RichMay 3, 2013
As Boston hosts the 25th Annual Specialty Coffee Association of America Exposition, Massachusetts companies can claim to be at the forefront of redefining the concept of sustainable coffee production and…
RichApril 10, 2013
As the official sustainable coffee of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Café Solar®, is being offered at several locations on campus in partnership with Aramark Dinning Services. Café Solar® is…
RichFebruary 20, 2013
The Fair Trade coffee producing organization, Cooperative COMISUYL, and neighboring farmer-owned biofuel producers, Biocombustibles de Yoro, S.A. (BYSA), and entered a cooperative agreement to support the transition to locally supplied…
RichFebruary 11, 2013
Thank you to those that supported the successful fundraising effort on Petridish. Brett is in the field leading this season's effort in Honduras. What if we could produce coffee in…
RichNovember 9, 2012
In August, nearly 1500 scientists from 24 countries gathered in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia for the fifth North American Ornithological Conference. A central focus of the conference…
RichSeptember 7, 2012
MDI has been awarded the International Programs award of the US Forest Service for the second time, 2009 and 2012. The “Wings Across the Americas” (WATA) award is shared with…
adminJuly 25, 2012
Who is Saving our Songbirds? Join Willem Lange as he takes us from New England to Costa Rica and Jamaica to meet these colorful and melodic migratory birds and the…
adminJuly 20, 2012
Honduras Weekly The main goal of this consortium is to define and discuss specific collaborative research areas and education programs within each institution,” says Lee, who is director of UMass…
RichApril 16, 2012
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