How green is your coffee shop?

Posted by Cafédirect, May 22nd, 2012, Comments (0)
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Do you own a café and want to make it greener? If so our newly launched EcoToolkit will help you find out what more you can do. When we first carried out a study to identify the environmental impact of our products; we were surprised to find out that … Read more

A storm in a coffee cup…

Posted by Cafédirect, May 14th, 2012, Comments (0)
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We’re often reminded that climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face globally today. And yet sometimes we can get lost in the overwhelming scale of the problem.  But, if like us, one of the highlights of your day is a great cup of coffee, then the challenges … Read more

Free energy-saving kit from Ecotricity

Posted by Emily, February 24th, 2012, Comments (0)
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Did you know that a large part of the carbon footprint of a cup of our tea, coffee or cocoa  is generated through the actual making of hot drinks? Whether that’s a kettle at home or a machine in a coffee shop, the energy used to prepare a cup … Read more

Cafedirect at COP17

Posted by Cafédirect, December 9th, 2011, Comments (0)
By Wolfgang Weinmann, Head of Strategic Development at Cafedirect What’s the new buzzword around climate change for the agricultural sector? No, you won’t guess – its ‘Climate-smart agriculture’! That’s what was on everyone’s lips during my days at COP17, the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. The … Read more

Introducing the Cafedirect Foodservice Eco-Toolkit

Posted by Whitney, October 28th, 2011, Comments (0)
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Since our first carbon footprint back in 2005, we’ve known that the carbon impact associated with consuming our products makes up the majority of the product’s footprint. Consumption is considered to be any activity related to eating or drinking a product such as kettle boiling.  This is especially true with … Read more

Musings for Energy Savings Week: How does your kettle boil?

Posted by Whitney, October 28th, 2010, Comments (2)
Welcome to day four of Energy Saving Week, sponsored by the UK’s Energy Saving Trust. As we’re all well aware by now, energy use is THE key source of carbon emissions that each of us is responsible for (see our carbon footprint if you want to know more!… Read more

Carbon footprinting: All about the boundaries

Posted by Whitney, August 4th, 2010, Comments (3)
Boundaries are important things … in a deep, philosophical sense (as in relationship boundaries) but also in a less deep, but very practical technical sense (as in carbon fooprinting). When we completed our 2009 carbon footprint, we had to choose the boundaries to determine which impacts we would measure … Read more

A glimpse into our 2009 carbon footprint

Posted by Whitney, April 1st, 2010, Comments (0)
We conducted our first ever carbon footprint in 2005. This year, with the ongoing support of our partner Forum for the Future, we completed a bigger and better footprint that exemplifies how we do business:  not limiting the view to those parts of the supply chain that we control, … Read more
 
 
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