Coffee with a Cause: SCAA Aims to Give Back to Industry Charities
Multiple Fundraisers planned in conjunction with Specialty Coffee Association of America’s Annual Event, to be held April 11-14, 2013 Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world’s largest coffee trade association will be…
SCAA Announces Development of Sustainable Events Policy to Reduce Environmental Impact
Specialty Coffee Association of America commits to working towards conformity with APEX/ASTM sustainable event standards The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), in partnership with its Sustainability Council, is pleased to announce that…
Now Accepting Applications for 2013 SCAA Sustainability Award
We’re currently accepting entries for the 2013 SCAA Sustainability Award. If you, your company, or organization has innovative projects to expand and promote sustainability within the coffee world while inspiring others to initiate…
Sustainability is Dead. Long Live Sustainability!
By Peter Giuliano, Director of Coffee and Co-Owner at Counter Culture Coffee I was a young coffee person when the concept of sustainability became big news in coffee. In those days—the roaring ’90s of…
Critical Issues at Origin | Organizational Capacity Building: Key to Long-term Sustainability
By Warren E. Armstrong The SCAA Sustainability Council serves as a “think tank” for sustainability–related ideas and as a liaison to other industry, professional and NGO organizations. As part of its work, the…
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Role and Reasons for Business Involvement in Sustainable Development
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as the voluntary commitment of businesses to include in their corporate practices economic, social, and environmental criteria and…
Why Does Shade Matter?
By Emma Bladyka, Coffee Science Manager, SCAA As the specialty coffee industry grows more concerned with sustainable practices at origin, we often find ourselves in conversations about shade-grown coffee. No one…
Addressing Hunger in the Coffeelands: The Next Great Sustainability Challenge in Specialty Coffee
By Michael Sheridan Over the past few years, I have had the privilege of working with smallholder coffee farmers in Central and South America as a project manager for Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Our…
Lower Impact Cafés: Simple Steps to Save Now & Contribute to Broader Mitigation Goals
By Tracy Ging, Deputy Executive Director, SCAA Feeling the Effects There is an axiom, you cannot manage what you cannot measure. Without hard data, there is a tendency to…
Responding to Climate Change: Building Community-Based Reliance
by Alexandra Katona-Carroll, on behalf of the Sustainability Council of SCAA In partnership with Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, PROGRESO, REDI and Thanksgiving Coffee Company This year, the SCAA’s Sustainability Council is proud to showcase the…
