This past week, a coffee growers cooperative from the Santa Maria de Dota region of
Costa Rica announced its plans to export the
first "carbon neutral" coffee.
Coopedota R.L., a cooperative of 800 growers, has been working for
12 years to achieve carbon-neutral status. The certification, titled PAS 2060, was enacted in April 2010 by the
British Standards Institute, an independent standards group. Since its announcement, it has been considered a good international standard for carbon neutrality by many experts and corporations.
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If you enjoyed the video of hand-pulled noodles to teach physics from the physicist Philip Morrison's 1987 PBS show The Ring of Truth: Atoms that I posted Wednesday, here's another from the same series—Julia Child isolating carbon....
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