What we publish

Green Cafe Land covers coffee with a particular interest in its environmental footprint — how it’s grown, processed, shipped, brewed, and thrown away. We publish five kinds of thing, and we label them so you know which one you’re reading.

• Reported summaries. Someone else — a research group, a trade publication, a regulator — published something worth knowing about. We summarize it, add context, and link out prominently so you can read the original. We don’t reproduce articles wholesale, and the source is always named in the body text, not buried.
• Explainers. Evergreen background on things that come up repeatedly: what the certification labels mean, how wet processing uses water, why arabica is fussier than robusta. These are assembled from multiple sources and updated when the facts change.
• Opinion. Arguments, clearly marked as such. When we say a certification scheme is weaker than its marketing suggests, or that home compostable pods are mostly theater, that’s a view — not a finding — and we flag it at the top of the piece.
• Rituals. The unhurried end of the site: morning routines, the case for the smaller cup, what it’s like to give up the pod machine. Personal, low-stakes, no citations required.
• Recipes and brew guides. Tested methods for making coffee and the things people eat alongside it, with an eye on waste. If we haven’t made it ourselves, we don’t publish it as a recipe.

Sourcing and attribution

Where an article rests on someone else’s reporting or research, that work is named and linked in the text. We prefer primary sources — the study, the regulation, the annual report — over coverage of coverage, and we link to the primary source when one is publicly available. Figures are attributed to whoever produced them, with the year attached, because a coffee price or a certified-acreage number goes stale quickly.

Photography is either our own or published under a license that permits commercial reuse. Where an image is licensed from someone else, the photographer and the license are credited at the foot of the article it appears on. That is a condition of the license, not a courtesy, and an uncredited image is a licensing failure rather than a formatting one.

How articles are produced

Articles are researched and drafted with the assistance of AI tools, then checked against the primary sources linked in each piece before publication. We think the honest position is to say so plainly rather than imply a newsroom that doesn’t exist. What we will not do is publish a claim we haven’t traced back to a source, or invent a quote, a statistic, or a person.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix the text and leave a dated note at the foot of the article saying what changed. We don’t quietly edit errors out of existence. Corrections can be requested through the contact form.

Advertising, affiliates, and independence

This site is supported by display advertising. Advertisers have no input into what we cover or what we say, and no advertiser sees an article before it publishes. We don’t accept payment for coverage, sponsored posts presented as editorial, or paid links.

If we ever add affiliate links — where we earn a commission on a purchase made through a link — they will be disclosed at the top of the article containing them. As of this writing, we don’t use any.

What we’re not

We’re a small independent blog, not a laboratory, a certifier, or a nutritionist. Nothing here is dietary or medical advice. Where we describe the health effects of coffee we’re reporting what published research says, and research on diet is frequently contested and revised.