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 similar endeavors you are encouraged to apply here. The deadline to submit the application is January 7, 2013. The Sustainability Award will be presented …
SCAA Board of Directors Approves Slate of Candidates for 2013 Election
The SCAA Board of Directors has approved a slate of candidates as recommended by the Nominating Committee for the 2013 Board of Directors Elections. The names below are the nominees for the positions listed. According to SCAA bylaws, additional nominees may be proposed through a petition process, excluding the office of Secretary/Treasurer (not applicable in …
Meet 4 African Women Who Are Changing The Face Of Coffee: NPR Reports
By Allison Aubrey, National Public Radio (NPR) If you’re a coffee drinker, chances are the cup of java you drank this morning was made from beans that were produced or harvested by women. Women’s handprints can be found at every point in coffee production. In fact, on family-owned coffee farms in Africa, about 70 percent …
SCAA’s 5th Annual Symposium Comes to Boston this April
The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is pleased to announce that its 5th Annual Symposium will be held in Boston, MA, April 10-11, 2013. Hundreds of the industry’s thought leaders, business owners, decision makers, writers, academics, and skilled coffee professionals of all stripes will converge at the historic Harvard Club to discuss and collectively …
Coffee and Climate Change: Reading Past the Headlines
By Emma Sage, SCAA Coffee Science Manager By now you have likely heard of the new scientific study published last week in the online peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE that has sparked a flurry of doomsday headlines for coffee. The study is a collaborative effort between researchers at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London and the …
12th Annual Roasters Guild Retreat Highlights
This summer, the Roasters Guild held their annual Retreat at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA. With just under 250 attendees, this was the largest Retreat yet and welcomed over 60% first timers. By all accounts, this event was a resounding success, with 99% of post-event survey respondents reporting that they would recommend the Retreat to …
Regional Perspectives from SCAA International Education Partners
For our most recent issue of The Chronicle, we explored many different aspects of traveling as a coffee professional. As a global trade organization, SCAA works with coffee folks from around the world through many of our programs, events, and committee work. We’d be remiss to write about coffee travel and not include something about …
SCAA Coffee Science Origin Trip: Reflections of a Facilitator of Learning
By Emma Sage, Coffee Science Manager, Specialty Coffee Association of America As the Coffee Science Manager I am constantly brainstorming the differing ways I can use my skill set to communicate the science of coffee to SCAA membership. When I began daydreaming about an origin trip that merged science and technological advances with specialty coffee, …
Building Bridges: How to Have a Meaningful Coffee Travel Experience
By Peter Giuliano, Director of Symposium, Specialty Coffee Association of America Coffee travelers come from a variety of places: most often it’s someone from a roasting company – whose job it is to buy coffee – taking deeper responsibility for their supply chain. More often lately, it is a barista or shop owner who seeks …
Traveling With Purpose
By Tracy Ging, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, S&D Coffee and Tea Specialty pioneers broke new ground when they began traveling to origin. What once was a nameless and faceless commodity came alive with stories, photos, and relationships. Our sense of taste changed. Places, faces, pride, and familiarity now contribute to our definition of great coffee. Travel …
Salzburg Café Diaries: Searching for the “Coffee” in Coffeehouse
By Shauna Alexander Mohr, Consultant In June, just after the World 2012 Barista Championships concluded in Vienna, my family traveled to Salzburg. Intentionally, I didn’t ask around in advance about good cafés or roasters. Instead, I wanted Austria’s grand coffeehouse tradition to reveal itself spontaneously. This approach had worked for me a few years ago …
Don’t Wave Your Stink Fist: Some Tips on Being a Coffee Traveler
By Craig Holt, Founder, Atlas Coffee Importers Coffee is such a great gig. It allows many of us the opportunity to visit a broad variety of cultures in some of the world’s most beautiful places. Having been given such an opportunity, I think we as coffee travelers need to go out of our way to …