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Starbucks to open sustainability learning and innovation lab in Costa Rica
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
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe 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\n\n\nStarbucks and Arizona State University partner to create programming this fall; the lab is expected to physically open within the next three years\n\n\n SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nStarbucks 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.\n\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230621594072/en/Starbucks to open sustainability learning and innovation lab in Costa Rica (Graphic: Business Wire)\nStarting 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.\n\n\nFor 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.\n\n\n“This is...