For paid subscribers: Nestlé is exploring a sale of Blue Bottle, and Luckin is reportedly interested. With such different approaches to coffee, however, it’s worth asking the question: why?
Coffee is increasingly at risk from the climate crisis, and corporate-driven incremental change won’t save it. The theory of degrowth offers hope for a better world and a fairer coffee industry.
On this week’s Coffee News Roundup: Brazil’s producers are seeing the effects of last year’s bad weather as the coffee harvest shrinks; workers at Intelligentsia vote to unionize; and researchers in Germany make cold brew—with lasers.
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