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Category Archives: Cafe Culture
New research project: exploring the impact of the Chatty Café Scheme
Coffee shops are important for different people in different places. I have argued in some of my previous work that coffee shops are important spaces for people to connect, and important places of community creation. For the next couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Chatty Cafe, community, Costa Coffee, research, Social Enterprises, Use of cafe spaces
Tagged Cafe, chatting, Chatty Cafe, coffee shop, community, loneliness, Social isolation, talking, volunteering
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Book Review: Filtered: Coffee, the cafe and the 21st century city by Emma Felton
A book about cafés and cities is a great addition to my growing collection of coffee and café culture books. ‘Filtered: coffee, the café and the 21st century’ by Dr Emma Felton is a book which discusses so many of … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Book Review, Cafe Culture, China, Coffee, coffee culture, Consumers, Japan, Urban spaces
Tagged book review, Cafe, Cafe Culture, cities, coffee, coffee culture, Filtered, Specialty Coffee, urban
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International Coffee Day 2019: Celebrating coffee and considering global coffee challenges
1st October is International Coffee Day. This event is designed to both celebrate coffee and recognise the millions of people from across the globe that are involved in maintaining and developing the coffee industry from the farmers to baristas and … Continue reading
Centre for Business in Society White Paper: Seeking Sustainability in the Coffee Shop Industry: Innovations in the Circular Economy
Across many sectors and industries, efforts are being made to be more sustainable, reduce consumption of materials and energy, and in many cases engage in more circular economy practices – reusing materials to create new ones, in turn reducing the … Continue reading
Summer sun, coffee shops and specialty coffee roasters in Porto
Portugal is a country with a long coffee history and rich coffee culture. Over the last few years I’ve been exploring the story of Portuguese coffee culture and the rise of specialty coffee in the country, particularly around the Porto … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Coffee, coffee culture, Europe, Porto, Portugal, Roasters, Specialty Coffee
Tagged 7g roasters, Bird of Passage, Cafe Culture, coffee, coffee culture, Coffee Origins, coffee shop, Combi Coffee, Fabrica Coffee Roasters, Gaia, Luso Coffee Roasters, Mesa325, Porto, Portugal, Senzu Coffee Roasters, Specialty Coffee, V60
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Costa Coffee, Coca-cola and the quest for global expansion – India and the Middle East
In 2018 it was announced that the global soft drinks company Coca-cola was going to buy the UK based coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, owned at the time by Whitbread, for nearly £4 billion. This was not the first big … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, Coffee, coffee culture, Costa Coffee, India, Middle East
Tagged Cafe, Cafe Coffee Day, Cafe Culture, Coca cola, coffee shop, coffee shop culture, Costa Coffee, India, Middle East
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Innovations in the circular economy: coffee grounds as a waste opportunity
In the UK around 95 million cups of coffee are consumed every day, which means it also produces a lot of coffee waste – around of 500,000 tonnes waste coffee grounds every year. Such amount of waste contributes to rising … Continue reading
The Cup Fund has launched – seeking new ideas for coffee cup recycling
Disposable coffee cups have recently been in the news again. This time it’s because of a new effort to try and increase coffee cup recycling – The Cup Fund – a £1 million funding scheme to kick start some ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Cafe Culture, circular economy, coffee culture, coffee cups, Coffee industry, environment, Starbucks, Sustainability, UK
Tagged circular economy, coffee, coffee culture, coffee cups, Coffee Shops, disposable coffee cups, funding, hubbub, local recycling, PCRRG, recycling, Starbucks, Sustainability, UK
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Working together towards a circular economy: life beyond the cup of coffee
There are many different definitions of the circular economy, which at their core they have the same thing in common: the reduction of waste, and the movement away from a linear economy which operates on a take-make-consume-throwaway model (Ellen Macarthur … Continue reading →