It is little known that growing coffee has become a primary threat to national parks and cloud forests across Central America.

The most commonly adopted process of creating coffee plantations or requires the cultivation of forest land which firstly means clearly woodlands to make way for the coffee crop, and secondly, consuming thousands of acres of forest to provide fuel to dry the coffee harvest. This contributes directly to the destruction of the rainforest, local biodiversity and reservoirs of plant life critical to reducing global climate change...

As we are sure you know, Bitcoin (BTC) is a very new type of currency or cryptocurrency that gained notoriety in 2018 through an astronomical increase in valuation, followed by an equally massive crash by the end of 2018. 

To give you a brief bit of background, a cryptocurrency is simply an electronic cash system or something which could be viewed as a digital form of cash. Normal (or fiat) currencies such as the USD are issued and regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank, which helps to control the money supply in the economy, ultimately as a centralized regulator for money...

 

Conventional coffee production and processing requires the growing, harvesting and drying of large yields of coffee beans. In order to dry a commercially viable amount of coffee, the conventional method used is to cut trees for wood and burn this as fuel to generate enough heat to dry the coffee efficiently. 

This, of course, is hugely detrimental to the surrounding rainforest area. Not only are vast amounts of trees required to be cut, but all the biodiversity and wildlife in the area is also lost...

Don Maslow Coffee is a young business. We invest in new technology, care about progressive issues and at the same time we are focused on finding an outlet for our creativity.

As such, we thought that it made a lot of sense to look not only for customers but long-term partners with whom we could grow our business. Young businesses all have one major thing in common - insanely driven people...

AI for Earth, by Microsoft is aimed at putting the power of artificial intelligence towards solving some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. 

AI can accelerate our ability to observe environmental systems and how they are changing at a global scale, convert the data into useful information and apply that information to take concrete steps to better manage our natural resources...