2024 Was a Warning
The past year of climate shocks and surging coffee prices has felt portentous. Without significant investment and industry cooperation, coffee’s future seems increasingly uncertain.
The past year of climate shocks and surging coffee prices has felt portentous. Without significant investment and industry cooperation, coffee’s future seems increasingly uncertain.
Coffee brands love to tout their ethics and human rights policies, yet the supply chain is still built on poverty. At some point, we have to judge the industry not by what it says but by its actions.
The coffee industry loves “community”, but it doesn’t always love the solidarity that the word signifies. Nowhere is this more obvious than in its reaction—or lack thereof—to the genocide in Gaza.
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226 articlesReviews of coffee shops and coffee roasters
32 articlesArticles covering corporate and independent coffee shops and roasters and the consumption side of the coffee supply chain.
16 articlesCoffee is political. There's no getting away from it, no matter how much the industry would like to ignore its connection to the wider world.
12 articlesFrom the producers who grow and process the coffee, to the ways it moves around the world and those who control the system, coffee's supply chain is long and opaque.
12 articlesCoffee is a complicated and fascinating plant, and these articles look at how it's grown and the people who grow it.
9 articlesThe coffee industry is huge, and there is much tension between the corporate and specialty sectors. These articles explore those tensions.
8 articlesA series of articles looking at how coffee is portrayed in cinema, including films such as The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, and more.
6 articlesCoffee is under threat from climate change. This is not a future problem, it's here now—how is the industry preparing?
6 articlesCoffeewashing, noun. When coffee companies deceive or mislead the public about the positive social, economic and environmental impact of their products or actions.
4 articlesFrom Starbucks to specialty coffee companies across the United States, the unionisation wave has been fascinating to watch.
4 articlesStarbucks is one of the world's biggest coffee companies. It is also one of its most controversial.
3 articlesThe history of coffee is long, dark, and often very strange. These articles dig into that history.
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