Coffee…is about politics, survival, the Earth, and the lives of indigenous peoples. Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Worlds within worlds of coffee have to make us think about the choices we make at the supermarket or café. Actress Susan Sarandon
America's most finicky coffee drinkers tout their caffeine connoisseurship in many ways. Then there are people at the outer edge of the country's java culture who roast coffee beans at home. (Daylife Publishers) AP Photo © 2006
Javamapper: The Geography Behind Javatrekker James Hayes-Bohanan, Geographer Pamela Hayes-Bohanan, Librarian Bridgewater State College
Miriam’s Well, The Emperor's Bed, and Kaldi’s Goats ETHIOPIA 2002
Yirgacheffe
Note: Ethiopia has a coastline on this 1976 map.
Mocha, Yemen
Fermenting Change, But Don’t Cross the Big Man KENYA 2005
Bridging the Gap PERU 2003 Map from Kent, Robert B. "Geographical Dimension of the Shining Path Insurgency in Peru." The Geographical Review 83/4 (Oct 1993):
Highlands
Global Warming: Climate Change, Conflict, and Culture COLOMBIA 2007
Nabusimake: Heart of the World Sierra Nevada: Between Barranquilla and Maracaibo
The Flickering Candle of Freedom GUATEMALA 1993
Atitlán: at the water
High above Atitlán
Tracking the Death Train MEXICO / EL SALVADOR 2005
Coffee Crisis -- Marches TapachulaSebaco
Coffee, Land Mines, and Hope NICARAGUA 2001
What if?
The Trench Cocos Meets Caribbean
Good Friends, Cold Beer … and a Water Buffalo SUMATRA 2003
Northern Sumatra Aceh & Uttara
The Toba caldera in Sumatra, Indonesia, produced the largest volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years. The caldera, a large, basinlike depression resulting from the explosion or collapse of the center of a volcano, is 30 by 100 kilometers, or about 19 miles by 62 miles, and has a total relief of 1,700 meters or slightly more than 1 mile. The caldera probably formed in stages: large eruptions occurred 840,000, 700,000 and 75,000 years ago. The most recent produced 2,800 times the eruption volume of the Mount St. Helen’s. MUCH BIGGER than Atitlán
The Three- Hundred-Man March PAPUA-NEW GUINEA 2004
Henganofi
Bio Hotspots
Thank the farmers!Thank you. Photo: Pamela Bohanan