Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending September 22nd

From beautiful Michigan, it’s the roundup of the Roundup.

This week, in coffee news:

• An important (and sometimes startling) insight into the problems and potential solutions surrounding coffee-linked migration.
• In Seattle, Starbucks and union organizers face off in a court hearing over contract negotiation rules that could prove pivotal to the workers’ ongoing unionization efforts.
• A new survey shows that coffee is more popular than tea in the UK for the first time.
• And Blue Bottle Coffee announced its “high-level roadmap” to carbon neutrality by 2024, much of which hinges on carbon offsets (Greenpeace has labelled carbon offsets “a scam”).

Read the full Roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:

If you missed it, my latest Pourover article focuses on a farmer with a simple and affordable redistribution plan who has so far struggled to find industry backing:

Can the Coffee Change Fund Save Coffee?

Coffee production is in crisis. Across the globe farmers struggle to make ends meet through growing coffee, and as the climate crisis intensifies it’s only going to get worse.<br />Marianella Baez Jost, a coffee farmer in Costa Rica, has a solution: it’s relatively simple, very affordable, and could have a big impact. The trouble is, she can’t do it alone and so far, the industry has not been willing to listen.

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As I’m in Michigan, my brother-in-law’s cat Diego is standing (lying) in for our usual newsletter closer Merlin: