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.
Pour one out for the demise of PBR's hard coffee
The International Coffee Organization thinks people will be drinking more coffee at home, a Starbucks manager claims he was instructed to retaliate against pro-union workers, and the tipping point for massive climate change-caused loss of coffee production is approaching.
Plus, the end of PBR’s hard coffee experiment.
Read about all this and more over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
And here’s Merlin lounging in the sun, back when we had sunshine here in the Scottish Highlands.
Look out for a new Pourover article this Friday, and see you next week for another news roundup!
It's the Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending October 24th
A newsletter about coffee—its culture, politics, and how it connects to the wider world.
