For paid subscribers: Blue Bottle used carbon offsets and a focus on “emissions intensity” to go carbon neutral, but its total emissions increased quite significantly. Should this "achievement" be celebrated?
As the climate crisis intensifies, regenerative agriculture could play a key role in sustaining and strengthening the global coffee industry. That is, if it can escape becoming just another corporate sustainability buzzword.
The consultant and educator discusses her coffee background, how she became an educator, and the upcoming Level Up event for baristas.
It's the Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending August 15th
Smuggling has been a part of coffee since the beginning, and continues in many forms today. In the process, it reveals much about the industry’s power structures.
For paid subscribers: Troubled coffee companies now have a new way to escape their problems: invest in cryptocurrencies and pray that the line keeps going up.
While Starbucks tries to return to its coffeehouse roots, a new wave of cafes spreading across the United States show how to really build a welcoming third place.
For paid subscribers: Competition among coffee chains in China is driving prices to ridiculous new lows. Where will it end?
Big brands love to bemoan the plight of coffee farmers without acknowledging their role in creating that plight.
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