Coffee production is altering rainforest ecosystems which negatively affect plant and animal species living within. Worldwide, the use of monocrop coffee production is leading to deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution.
Our goal is to stop deforestation due to coffee production and restore forest habitat to capture carbon and mitigate climate change while providing carbon-neutral processing using renewable energy technology for industrial coffee drying.
This $10 billion industry is not harmless because there are many environmental and ecological problems that result from coffee production.1 For every cup of coffee consumed, it is almost certain that one square inch of rainforest was destroyed.2 Chemical buildup in soils and loss of forest shade are consequences of mass coffee production.
Climate expert Peter Baker estimates in his report “Global Coffee Production and Land Use Change” that coffee production is driven by technological improvement to a smaller extent only. He estimates that the yearly increase of coffee land reaches about 100,000 ha which points to a critical issue: Deforestation.
· What does “zero deforestation” mean? Zero deforestation usually refers to commitments by companies to avoid clearing forests when producing commodities that lots of people consume every day. These include cattle products (beef and leather), paper, timber, rubber, soy, cocoa, coffee, and palm oil (found in all sorts of products , from …
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· 1800s headline: Coffee will make you go blind – Postum’s ads against coffee were especially negative, claiming that coffee was as bad as morphine, cocaine, nicotine or strychnine and could cause …
· These brands have products that contain palm oil sourced from mills that are responsible for the destruction of precious habitats of endangered species. Just in 2020 alone, these brands (along with many others) contributed to the destruction of 38,000ha of rainforest in Indonesia, SE Asia and Papua New Guinea. Therefore, these brands are directly involved…
· Lack of calcium weakens bones which is the cause of osteoporosis (4). With low levels of calcium, bones are weak and can break easily and bone mass shrinks (4). Caffeine itself had no effect on calcium but studies showed that people who drank coffee ended up drinking less milk related products that contained lots of calcium necessary for a …
· Most crucially, perhaps, the program outline does not address preventing deforestation on the federal level. Deforestation is the biggest cause of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, which is the …
· Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study. Between 2000 and 2019, the production of soybean in South America has doubled, covering an area larger than the state of …
· Inditex is one of the companies that does not have specific responsibility policies that limit business with companies that cause deforestation. However, a third of the companies that appear in the report do have commitments along these lines, something that has not prevented them from keeping suppliers in the JBS network.
· The new energy regime, however, does not exclude nuclear energy – regarded as green for allegedly not producing CO 2 emissions (Werlhof 2019) which is not true when at least considering uranium mining, for instance, its precondition, as well. The maintenance of nuclear power supply shows, however, that in reality renewable energies would not …
