We start a new series by explaining how coffee’s scale, reach and connections enable us to play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The new series explores how we can make specialty coffee more sustainable.

You can read the original article on United Baristas https://unitedbaristas.com/articles/insights/how-can-we-make-specialty-coffee-more-sustainable/

and if you would like to view the video of Hans Rosling explaining the correlation between human health and income click here.

What’s your experience of sustainability? Let United Baristas know, we’re on all the usual channels.

And if you found this information useful, make sure you share it with someone else who will benefit too.

You can find more resources for baristas and coffee businesses on unitedbaristas.com.

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The Brexit debate was hotter than a steam boiler. Now, six years after the referendum, the conversation has cooled. And, like when cupping coffee, that makes it easier to grade. United Baristas explores what Brexit has served up to the coffee community.

We’ve spoken with dozens of people including importers, business owners, baristas and brokers. There was a range of political opinion, but when it comes to the impacts and repercussions there was much in common.

You can read the full article at https://unitedbaristas.com/articles/insights/opportunities-and-challenges-for-coffee-after-brexit/ and do let us know your experience of Brexit.

And if you found this information useful, make sure you share it with someone else who will benefit too.

You can find more resources for baristas and coffee businesses at https://unitedbaristas.com.

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United Baristas explores why increasing coffee cup prices is necessary with current rising costs. And explains how to successfully implement a price rise in your coffee shop.

We refer to several previous articles in this audio article. You can read them on United Baristas:

• One Size Doesn’t Fit All - on segmenting coffee businesses by size and focus
• Insights from the Iron Triangle - exploring why coffee shops can only pick two of fast, quality and cheap

United Baristas also explained to baristas earlier in the year that they should support price increases. You can read the article here and find the original audio article in our feed.

There are more articles on pricing as part of our Coffee Shop Viability series.

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United Baristas starts a new series exploring the carbon footprint of coffee businesses. We want to equip the industry to reduce its impacts and build a more sustainable future.

Many of the coffee businesses in our community are retail coffee businesses, such as coffee shops, coffee bars and cafés. You can read more about how we define and segment these businesses in our recent article One Size Doesn’t Fit All.

We need to work these things out if we’re going to play our role in tackling climate change, protecting the future of the coffee industry and building viable and sustainable businesses. This series is to help the industry get started. Join us to follow the journey to learn what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint, and please do share your ideas, research and progress with us. We’ll help disseminate information to a broader audience. Individually we might be small, but United Baristas believes together we can achieve great things.

You read the original version of this article at Here's how coffee businesses can tackle climate change.

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The profitability chasm starts when headquarters’ costs become greater than the profit generated by the shops. Many operators experience the edge of the chasm at three or four sites.

This audio article is part of a mini-series exploring why specialty coffee chains fail. View the fill series: https://unitedbaristas.com/articles/series/specialty-coffee-chains/

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