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Hot Stuff: How espresso machines cause global warming
Reducing coffee’s carbon footprint by tackling the energy consumption of espresso machines
How to flush your filter
Before you re-commission your espresso machine, flush your filters. In this short film, Brita shows you how.
More How to flush your filterStrengthening the coffee industry by eliminating the reusable cup discount
When lockdown lifts to permit coffee shop trade, we should end the customer discount for reusable cups. Here’s why, how we should use the money instead, and why this is the best moment to implement this change.
More Strengthening the coffee industry by eliminating the reusable cup discountEasing into it
Erin is the social media manager for Caffeine magazine, and a qualified yoga instructor. She explains how it has improved her wellbeing and how she’s now sharing her passion with others.
More Easing into itCare Packs for baristas with #BaristaCare, a coffee community project
Over 250 care packs pledged for furloughed baristas by leading coffee companies
More Care Packs for baristas with #BaristaCare, a coffee community projectIntroducing #BaristaCare to provide you with support during Covid-19
United Baristas has instigated an industry-wide project to better support baristas and coffee professionals during the Covid-19 outbreak
More Introducing #BaristaCare to provide you with support during Covid-19Rock star
Ashley Dawes is a key account manager at Union, and is discovering new ways to scale new heights
More Rock starIntroducing United Baristas Community Memberships
New members-only area and articles for the United Baristas community
More Introducing United Baristas Community MembershipsBeing a good sport
Camilla Morgan is the UK sales manager for Victoria Arduino and spends much of her professional life on the road, and her personal time competing in triathlons
More Being a good sportWe’ve made progress on wages, but there’s still much more work to be done
Analysis comparing wage, revenue and inflation over the past two years shows the coffee industry is paying its staff more by raising prices
More We’ve made progress on wages, but there’s still much more work to be doneLooking at the cost and benefit to lowering environmental impacts through eliminating takeout cups
Learning from the Boston Tea Party experience
More Looking at the cost and benefit to lowering environmental impacts through eliminating takeout cupsMilk Matters: Small changes can dramatically lower your coffee’s carbon footprint
Want to reduce your coffee’s environmental impacts? Milk is responsible for the majority of a cup’s carbon footprint, so lower your impacts in 2020 by making informed decisions
More Milk Matters: Small changes can dramatically lower your coffee’s carbon footprintUnited Baristas highlights the value of being sustainable with Coffee Forever campaign
To be sustainable, the industry has to be economically viable, minimise its environmental impacts, and be socially responsible. Help us make coffee survive forever.
More United Baristas highlights the value of being sustainable with Coffee Forever campaignHow to get the coffee job you want
Originally presented at Caffè Culture 2019, this Keynote explores how to build a career in the coffee industry.
More How to get the coffee job you wantRunning a Sustainable Coffee Shop
Originally presented at Caffè Culture 2019, this Keynote explores financial and environmental sustainability with a focus on propositions and carbon emissions
More Running a Sustainable Coffee ShopWhat happens in your brain when tasting coffee
How confident are you of being able to accurately assess coffee?
More What happens in your brain when tasting coffeeCalculating the Coffee Industry’s Carbon Emissions
