Starbucks to open sustainability learning and innovation lab in Costa Rica
June 21 2023 - 9:41AM
Business Wire
The lab to offer hands-on and virtual learning
for Starbucks partners, students, researchers and industry leaders
to innovate and scale solutions for some of the world’s most
challenging social and environmental issues
Starbucks and Arizona State University partner
to create programming this fall; the lab is expected to physically
open within the next three years
Starbucks announced plans today to develop a new sustainability
learning and innovation lab at Hacienda Alsacia – the company’s
global agronomy headquarters for research and development, located
in Costa Rica. The lab will serve as a hub for hands-on and virtual
learning opportunities for Starbucks partners (employees),
students, researchers and industry leaders to innovate and scale
sustainable solutions for some of the world’s most challenging
environmental and social issues, including climate adaption and
agricultural economics.
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Starting this fall, the lab will offer the first wave of
educational programming to select Arizona State University (ASU)
students and Starbucks partners. The first wave will leverage ASU’s
leading educational technology and world-class faculty to enrich
the student experience, including study abroad opportunities tied
to existing ASU degree programs, such as Sustainability,
Sustainable Food Systems, Global Agribusiness, Environmental and
Resource Management, among others. Starbucks lab is expected to
physically open within the next three years.
For more than a decade Hacienda Alsacia, the company’s first and
only company-owned and operated coffee farm, has focused on the
sustainability of coffee. The farm is dedicated exclusively to
research and development, where the Starbucks team is creating new
coffee varieties, testing disease-resistant coffee trees and
developing and sharing agricultural practices to produce a higher
yield and ensure the future of coffee. While the research and
development at Hacienda Alsacia will continue, the lab will expand
the capabilities and collaboration needed to cultivate positive
social and environmental change beyond coffee.
“This is an opportunity for us to advance Starbucks
environmental promise to give more than we take and our farmer
promise to ensure the future of coffee for all,” said Laxman
Narasimhan, Starbucks chief executive officer. “We know we cannot
do this important work alone, and the possibilities in front of us
to scale solutions, partner with thought leaders and serve as a
global hub for innovation are limitless."
Starbucks mission extends well beyond its customers, partners
and cafes. As a company that buys 3% of the world’s highest quality
and ethically sourced arabica coffee from more than 400,000 farmers
in more than 30 countries, Starbucks understands its future is
inextricably tied to social and environmental challenges. The
company has a long-standing commitment to work alongside
communities to become a resource positive company, including
cutting its carbon, water and waste footprints in half by 2030. In
partnership with others, Starbucks is committed to identifying new
ways to give more than it takes with the belief that the company
can build a great business that scales for good and has a positive
impact on the future.
Starbucks and ASU have a long-standing partnership of working
together to build educational and innovative programming. Most
recently, Starbucks and ASU reached a milestone of graduating more
10,000 partners through the Starbucks College Achievement
Program.
“This is an exciting new chapter in our nearly decade-long
partnership with Starbucks,’’ said Arizona State University
President Michael Crow. “The new sustainability learning and
innovation lab will expand on our collaboration together, working
closely to tackle critical challenges with a collective commitment
to seek new and sustainable approaches that impact global
communities.”
About Starbucks
Since 1971, Starbucks Coffee Company has been committed to
ethically sourcing and roasting high-quality arabica coffee. Today,
with over 35,000 stores worldwide, the company is the premier
roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world. Through our
unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we
bring the unique Starbucks Experience to life for every customer
through every cup. To share in the experience, please visit us in
our stores or online at stories.starbucks.com or starbucks.com.
About Arizona State University
Arizona State University has developed a new model for the
American Research University, creating an institution that is
committed to access, excellence and impact. ASU measures itself by
those it includes, not by those it excludes. As the prototype for a
New American University, ASU pursues research that contributes to
the public good, and ASU assumes major responsibility for the
economic, social and cultural vitality of the communities that
surround it.
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