WA’s Local-Global Linkages Via Coffee
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
by mikecarroll
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WA has taken another step forward in exploring its community role at the local and global level. This time, the step pertains to one of the most highly traded global commodities, coffee.
Worcester Academy worked with SAGE dining services to begin purchasing organic, fair trade coffee roasted and supplied locally by employee owned Equal Exchange, located in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Equal Exchange sources their coffee beans directly from and develops mutually beneficial partnerships with community based and cooperative participating coffee farmers from across the globe. WA strives in this commitment to demonstrate how empowering the local and global community can be one in the same.
Coffee selections in Adams Hall will be rotating over time, open to feedback from the community, while the current blend is made from beans grown by farmers from Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico.
WA is also better positioned to explore the educational potential of examining and understanding how local actions and relationships connect in evolving ways through time to global dynamics at the community and environmental level. Such connections include community development, diverse cultures and heritages, farming, land use impacts, biodiversity, international trade, production and consumptions cycles, and more.
Stay tuned for an updated live report link as Equal Exchange travel to Mexico in the near future.
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