Sun grown Coffee
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Professor Hutton was very passionate about the environment, which is something I genuinely admired about him. He wanted us to see all the problems that are occurring within our beautiful green planet that tend to go unheard of, or unnoticed. That is why for one of our projects he decided to assign each student (keep in mind that we were 60 in the class) an environmental problem. After receiving my problem, I noticed that I had to do some basic research first, because I have never heard about sun grown coffee. I came to learn that sun grown coffee is detrimental to the environment, and this is why. It causes deforestation in parts of Central America, Colombia and the Caribbean because of it monoculture nature. When planted, it is the only tree/bush that is allowed to flourish on the ground that it inhabits. That means that the forest that was there previously, with its array of plants, birds and insects gets destroyed by sun grown coffee. As always, the reason that sun grown coffee began to be produce was because shade grown coffee was taking too long to grow which meant fewer profit. Also, unlike sun grown coffee, shade grown coffee was susceptible to fungus which was also hurting profit. However, the nice thing about shade grown coffee is that it did not disturb natural ecosystems nor cause deforestation. Shade grown coffee is able to live with other trees and canopies within a forest, but its growing process takes too long. Sun grown coffee also became popular because of the general demand for coffee around first world countries. Many first world countries consume large amounts of coffee, and unfortunately with shade grown supply was not meeting demand.
Refection:
Through this project I came to learn what sun grown coffee was. Who would of known that a simple cup of Joe has the ability to cause mayhem upon the planet, specifically towards the forests in Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. That is exactly what I discovered when I conducted research upon Sun grown coffee. I learned that there are two types of coffee we consume, Sun grown and Shade grown. Shade grown coffee is the best type of coffee to grow for the environment, but, as stated previously, it takes longer to grow and is susceptible to fungus, which causes the coffee tree/bush to not have enough energy to produce more coffee beans. Overall, what I take from this project is to be more conscious of the coffee beans that I consume. I try to purchase coffee from coffee shops that only serve shade grown coffee, or cut my coffee consumption to two small cups a week. I am not much of a coffee consumer to begin with, but I must admit that I too like my cup of Joe every once in a while.
Professor Hutton was very passionate about the environment, which is something I genuinely admired about him. He wanted us to see all the problems that are occurring within our beautiful green planet that tend to go unheard of, or unnoticed. That is why for one of our projects he decided to assign each student (keep in mind that we were 60 in the class) an environmental problem. After receiving my problem, I noticed that I had to do some basic research first, because I have never heard about sun grown coffee. I came to learn that sun grown coffee is detrimental to the environment, and this is why. It causes deforestation in parts of Central America, Colombia and the Caribbean because of it monoculture nature. When planted, it is the only tree/bush that is allowed to flourish on the ground that it inhabits. That means that the forest that was there previously, with its array of plants, birds and insects gets destroyed by sun grown coffee. As always, the reason that sun grown coffee began to be produce was because shade grown coffee was taking too long to grow which meant fewer profit. Also, unlike sun grown coffee, shade grown coffee was susceptible to fungus which was also hurting profit. However, the nice thing about shade grown coffee is that it did not disturb natural ecosystems nor cause deforestation. Shade grown coffee is able to live with other trees and canopies within a forest, but its growing process takes too long. Sun grown coffee also became popular because of the general demand for coffee around first world countries. Many first world countries consume large amounts of coffee, and unfortunately with shade grown supply was not meeting demand.
Refection:
Through this project I came to learn what sun grown coffee was. Who would of known that a simple cup of Joe has the ability to cause mayhem upon the planet, specifically towards the forests in Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean. That is exactly what I discovered when I conducted research upon Sun grown coffee. I learned that there are two types of coffee we consume, Sun grown and Shade grown. Shade grown coffee is the best type of coffee to grow for the environment, but, as stated previously, it takes longer to grow and is susceptible to fungus, which causes the coffee tree/bush to not have enough energy to produce more coffee beans. Overall, what I take from this project is to be more conscious of the coffee beans that I consume. I try to purchase coffee from coffee shops that only serve shade grown coffee, or cut my coffee consumption to two small cups a week. I am not much of a coffee consumer to begin with, but I must admit that I too like my cup of Joe every once in a while.
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