Approximately 56 billion coffee pods are consumed each year which end up in the landfill and can take up to 500 years to decompose, leaving behind contamination and microplastics. Recyclable pods, meanwhile, often include non-recyclable plastic and aluminum –...
After all the shouting there are just two types of coffee We get asked all kinds of questions about ‘sustainability’, we’re frequently asked what’s ethical and what isn’t and, more often than not, we’re asked why we don’t just...
It’s easy to eat a chocolate bar without much thought as to where it came from. While the taste of chocolate is sweet, however, often the conditions in which cacao is harvested are the opposite. Today, there are over 100 million child labourers working in agriculture...
Subscribe: SpotifyDid you know that 70 percent of the estimated one billion poor are women and that over 500 million people are dependent on coffee for their livelihoods, 25 million of whom are coffee farmers? Women coffee farmers are often seen as invisible,...
Manyang Reath Kher’s earliest memories are of war, dead bodies, and of his own uncle trying to save his life. At age three Manyang became a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. He is one of The Lost Boys, a group of 20,000 boys who were displaced and orphaned....
