Global Kitchen: Climate Change and Coffee




American Museum of Natural History Podcast show

Summary: Todd Carmichael, La Colombe Torrefaction; Coffee Roasters and Blenders; and Danner Friedman, Rainforest Alliance, discuss growing coffee amid the realities of climate change. Learn how the coffee you purchase can help protect against deforestation, one of the leading causes of carbon dioxide emissions. A coffee cupping introduces several coffee varietals (plant strains) grown under different environmental conditions, from slash-and-burn farms to rainforests. Recorded on February 3, 2009.