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.
For paid subscribers: Coffee is increasingly used to burnish the United Arab Emirates’ international image. Now it is being supercharged by merging with the popularity of the Dubai chocolate trend.
While certain unnamed companies release luxury watches containing tiny amounts of coffee grounds, researchers in Australia have discovered that adding coffee grounds to concrete not only saves on sand (a precious and depleting resource) but actually makes the concrete stronger.
World Coffee Research has launched an open-access coffee genetic fingerprinting database, which among other things could put an end to variety mislabeling (so you can be sure that gesha you bought is actually a gesha).
Coffee capsule manufacturers in Europe are worried about new EU legislation that could force them to produce more sustainable pods. The horror.
I'm a coffee writer and creator of The Pourover. Based in Scotland, I have over a decade of experience in the specialty coffee industry. Ask me about coffeewashing. It's pronounced Fin (he/him)
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