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    Best Organic and Specialty Coffee Subscriptions

    Best Organic and Specialty Coffee Subscriptions

    For coffee drinkers, there’s really nothing more terrifying than the thought of waking up one morning and being all out of java. One way to ensure that never happens is to sign up for a coffee subscription service. This not only keeps you well-stocked, but it also gives you the opportunity to sample some high-quality […]

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    5 Ways to Make Your Coffee Routine More Sustainable

    Coffee has enormous cultural significance. It’s a staple of culture, cuisine, and everyday life for people all over the planet. Americans alone consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, and the crop is a highly traded commodity of huge importance to global economies. These millions of cups aren’t without consequence, however. The growing, processing, […]

    Study: Climate Change Could Impact Your Favorite Cup of Coffee

    Study: Climate Change Could Impact Your Favorite Cup of Coffee

    Climate change could make it harder to find a good cup of coffee, new research finds. A changing climate might shrink suitable areas for specialty coffee production without adaptation, making coffee taste blander and impacting the livelihoods of small farms in the Global South. Published in Scientific Reports on Wednesday, the study focused on regions […]

    Coffee Pulp Speeds up Forest Restoration, Study Finds

    Coffee Pulp Speeds up Forest Restoration, Study Finds

    Spreading coffee pulp, a waste product from coffee production, over degraded lands helps them recover quickly, a recent study found. By dumping 30 truck-loads of coffee pulp on a plot of degraded land in Costa Rica, researchers watched a small forest grow at a remarkable speed in just two years, the British Ecological Society reported. […]

    Colombian Company Uses Coffee Husks to Build Low-Income Housing

    Colombian Company Uses Coffee Husks to Build Low-Income Housing

    Colombia is one of the world’s largest producers of coffee, and yet also one of the most economically disadvantaged. According to research by the national statistic center DANE, 35% of the population in Columbia lives in monetary poverty, compared to an estimated 11% in the U.S., according to census data. This has led to a […]

    How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

    How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

    According to a 2017 report published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, you shouldn’t drink more 300-400 mg of caffeine a day. In other words, roughly 2-4 cups of coffee. With that said, everyone responds to caffeine differently. For some, a daily caffeine intake of 200 mg could be excessive—it all depends on your […]