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, GeographerPamela Hayes-Bohanan, Librarian

Bridgewater State College

Miriam’s Well, The Emperor's Bed, and

Kaldi’s GoatsETHIOPIA 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 GapPERU 2003

Map fromKent, Robert B. "Geographical Dimension of the Shining Path Insurgency in Peru." The Geographical Review 83/4 (Oct 1993): 441-454

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 TrainMEXICO / EL SALVADOR 2005

Coffee Crisis -- Marches

Tapachula Sebaco

Coffee, Land Mines, and HopeNICARAGUA 2001

What if?

The Trench

Cocos Meets Caribbean

Good Friends, Cold Beer … and a Water BuffaloSUMATRA 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.http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/Toba_Caldera.html

MUCH BIGGERthan Atitlán

The Three-Hundred-Man

MarchPAPUA-NEW GUINEA 2004

Henganofi

Bio Hotspots

Thank the farmers!Thank you.

Photo: Pamela Bohanan