Climate Café: Chocolate and the Environment

Welcome to the Climate Café! In this monthly series, we'll be hosting presenters on select Saturday mornings to speak about topics like environmentalism and nature, climate change, wildlife protection, and more. 

For this Café we'll be joined by Cocoa Beantown for their presentation "Chocolate and the Environment." With concerns about climate change increasing by the day, cacao producers around the world are working to ensure their farms survive the changing growing seasons. Likewise, small batch chocolate makers find themselves a surprisingly large piece of the puzzle–supporting farmers by purchasing beans that were farmed in a sustainable way and employing their own green practices to chocolate production, packaging, and delivery chains. Included in the topics of discussion will also be the history of the Arhuacos, an indigenous tribe in the Sierra Nevada region of Colombia that considers themselves stewards of the environment, and have raised cacao for over 500 years.

Join us on Saturday, March 1st at 10:00am in the Grice Community Room. No registration required!

For this Café, instead of our usual coffee and pastries, Cocoa Beantown will bring complimentary chocolate samples for attendees to enjoy (limited to 50 samples.)

Please refer to our calendar to view future Climate Café dates.