Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending September 15th

In the coffee news this week:

• The new Coffee Barometer report looks at the industry’s current sustainability situation and forecasts a turbulent future for coffee.
• The Specialty Coffee Association is replacing its diploma program with a shiny new one featuring, most importantly, “highly shareable” digital badges.
• One of the anti-union-thinktank-backed decertification campaigns finally succeeds, as workers at Good Karma Coffeehouse in Philadelphia vote to disband their union.

Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

I’m heading to Michigan at the end of this week, but there will still be a new article this Friday (I might take a break for the one after that, but we’ll see). Until then here’s Merlin to say goodbye: