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Coffee businesses are people businesses. Managing people is a learnt set of skills. This collection compiles tips for hiring and managing coffee people.
Coffee is both contributes to global warming and is impacted by climate change. This collection compiles articles exploring causes and impacts from crop to cup.
Working in coffee is dynamic, engaging and full of possibilities. This collection compiles articles to help people navigate life and work in coffee.
Running a coffee shop can be challenging, but is ultimately a rewarding job. This collection compiles articles for managers and owners.
Coffee’s scale, reach and connections enables us to play an important role in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Exploring how the industry can better communicate speciality coffee’s distinct and vibrant flavours.
Exploring how specialty coffee can cut its carbon emissions, from crop to cup. We want to understand how the industry can play its part in reaching net zero.
Exploring how coffee become more sustainable. We want to understand how specialty coffee can better align itself with the Sustainable Development Goals.
What is coffee’s carbon footprint? What are the most significant contributors? We want to understand the industry’s emissions from crop to cup.
Mini-series exploring the challenges specialty chains face as they grow. We want to understand why some coffee shop businesses survive when others fail.
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A new pilot study makes it increasingly clear how the coffee industry can reduce its carbon footprint.
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Tackling Coffee’s Carbon Footprint: the 101 video
This video is packed full with information to reduce your coffee’s carbon footprint.
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The role of technology to make more energy-efficient espresso machines
Gwilym Davies, World Barista Champion, explains some of the energy efficiency technologies in Victoria Arduino's Eagle One.
Grounds for hope: learning there’s still so much flavour in the coffee we’re throwing out
After discovering coffee grounds are full of flavour, Nate Brown created a better tasting, low-carbon, pre-mixed coffee martini
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Cheers! Three festive coffee cocktails for baristas to make at home
Enjoy some cheer with these delicious and easy-to-make coffee cocktails, plus discover a new shake & pour coffee martini
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There still much to do
The current state of specialty coffee
Specialty Coffee Assoication Executive Director Ric Rhinehart discusses the state of specialty coffee at Re:co symposium, Seattle, April 2018.
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It's not good news
How climate change impacts coffee production
Scientists at London's Kew Gardens explain how they are researching the impacts of climate change on coffee production.
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The Cascara Raids
Why we are moving to a new, and better, regime for buying and selling cascara in the EU.
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