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RESPONSIBLE SOURCING AND SUSTAINABLE SOURCING: KEY DIFFERENCES

Brief synopsis: In their simplest forms, Responsible Sourcing requires meeting or complying with accepted levels of ethical or responsible practices in areas such as human rights or pollution, whereas Sustainable Sourcing goes beyond compliance to engage and improve the conditions of sustainability that can include areas such as dignified livelihoods or climate-smart practices. Responsible Sourcing […]

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LANGUAGE AND MEMORY — OUTLINES OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Having an olfactory memory is a fundamental prerequisite considering that we remember smells much more than an image or sound and that these olfactory memories can remain within us for many years. In fact, smells bring to mind moments lived together with their emotional weight, underlining this emblematic Proustian phenomenon, which is probably due to the proximity of the olfactory system

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“MAKING BETTER COFFEE.” INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR TED FISHER ON HIS NEW BOOK. 

I was recently sent a review copy of a new book from the Anthropologist Ted Fisher and asked if I’d like to review it. At the time, I had 12 books stacked by my reading chair, and I might have sounded less than enthusiastic. The pdf sat on my hard drive for a couple of

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MARTIN LÖFBERG TALKS TO NICK BASKETT ABOUT “ERA OF WE”

“Era of We” is an autological term – it is what it implies, a new era of coffee, ignited by Löfbergs as the first roaster, but to be an inclusive yet performance-driven community. It’s tempting to release a news story quickly and be the first to break it, but after seeing Löfbergs press release, I

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GET READY: HOW SUSTAINABILITY DATA IS CHANGING

Emmanuel Faber, former chairman of Danone, and other experts think coming changes in sustainability data will benefit nearly everyone with clarity and lower costs. Work on new standardization of data is accelerating fast as the finance and insurance sectors are demanding data to assess sustainability and risks; they want it to be as readily standardized

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BEYOND ESG REPORTING: THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY IS PERFORMANCE

A large Harris Poll survey 1 of global corporate CEOs for Google finds that fully two-thirds of them question how genuine or effective their sustainability efforts are. Most admit they do not even have realistic sustainability metrics or tools in place. The value of ESG scores has always been limited. Many can be ambiguously interpreted

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A TACTICALLY TACTILE COFFEE (because density and body are worth it!)

The majority of people think that in the action of drinking a coffee, the most important thing is to identify the typical features of “strong taste” and “intentionally roasted aroma”. However, this is a backwards-looking vision, and probably also a little old, about what characteristics a coffee should have. On the other hand, in the

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UNDERSTANDING RESILIENCE IN MANAGING SUSTAINABILITY RISK

Our food and agriculture systems face unprecedented change. COVID has provided us with a rehearsal of the scale of disruption that is possible. In the first of this three-part series on starting or recalibrating a robust sustainability plan, The Committee on Sustainability Assessment, COSA, looks at resilience in agri-food systems.  Sustainability is engaged in many familiar ways:

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