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The Green Footprint of Fairtrade Green Coffee Beans and the Port of New Orleans

The Port of New Orleans in the 19th Century

New Orleans     Consider these facts if you will:

From Wikipedia:   As the country’s major coffee-handling port, the Port of New Orleans has 14 warehouses covering over 51 hectares of storage space and six roasting facilities.

Coffee Handled Here. New Orleans is the nation’s premier coffee-handling port, with 14 [...]

Video Series: Wade Discusses Battle for the 9th Ward

What Does TV Say about Reality: Deconstructing HBO’s “Treme”

Professor Vicki Mayer on Treme

New Orleans    The HBO show, Treme, another auteur urban tour from David Simon following the wildly acclaimed Wire, may not have found mass appeal out there in viewerlandia, but in New Orleans literally everyone has an opinion, all of which made for a fascinating evening with Tulane media and communications [...]

Padding the Numbers: Seedco in NYC and Gutters in New Orleans

Federal agents carry out records from New Orleans Affordable Homeowners Corp. & indictments followed.

New Orleans    Sometimes it comes down to who you know, not what you can do, and in those circumstances when the screws start turning from the City paymasters, the favored few sometimes just start making up shit to save themselves rather than [...]

Short Takes on the 1% and Other Weirdness in the Small World

New Orleans    As we fight to regain population in the wake of Katrina and so many other demographic struggles over the last half-century, New Orleans in the NBA/NFL world is a “small market city,” which means we often find that we are living in a very small world.

I thought of this recently while hanging around [...]

Springfield Story: Do We Learn from Disasters?

New Orleans There’s a t-shirt coming:  global warming gonna get your mamma! The spate of disasters from Japan to Joplin, Birmingham, Alabama to Springfield, Mass brings all the horror home again.  Living in New Orleans and still in recovery from Katrina and weaker and wiser from the experience, I keep an eye on these things, [...]