Bay Area Coffee Community – Winners & Photos! info from the first-ever @HelloBACC event at @BaristaNation SF

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sprudge.com 28 Jan '13, 9pm

Bay Area Coffee Community – Winners & Photos! info from the first-ever @HelloBACC event at @BaristaNation SF

BACC is certainly still growing and getting its feet planted. We were actually quite excited that Stephen Vick brought the sustainability issue into view. It’s something we’ve been wrestling with as an organization, and we were heartened to see voices from the community calling out for attention to ethics. Sustainability is inherently part of the coffee conversation, and specialty coffee’s relationship with it is a hotly debated issue at the moment. Partly because the two ends of the supply chain, as Colby Barr of Verve Coffee recently mentioned at the CUESA sustainability lecture; farmers and coffee drinkers, are as disconnected from each others’ lives as you could possibly imagine and highly polarized between the first and third world, drinking coffee brings up a lot of questions about our responsibilities as stewards and consumers as well as our potential to empower oth...

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