The Value of A Good Story, Or: How to Turn Poop into Gold
By Lily Kubota Story | stawr-ee, stohr-ee | noun 1. a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. It is…
Home Coffee Roasting: A Bump on the Butt of Specialty Coffee
by Thompson Owen A guy goes into a coffee roasting shop and asks if he can buy some green coffee to roast at home. The owner says, “Sure, and I will give you a 10…
A Realistic Look at the Numbers Game
by Tracy Ging Stocks take another dive as new employment figures are released, analysts warn of further declines, and as I write this, the coffee market has just experienced 18 straight sessions of…
There and Back Again: A Coffee Decade Comes Full-Circle
By Nick Cho This past decade has been busy for our specialty coffee industry. While reminiscing about the past is a bit arbitrary, there’s a growing sense that we’re entering into a new…
Bolder Business: The Competitive Capital of Doing Good
By Tracy Ging By 2013, we may need two planets to sustain our demand for resources on Earth. At the risk of being repetitive: climate change is real. The level of urgency is rising…
Creating Coffee Community: Three Outlooks for the Future
By Shanna Germain Walk into Case Study Coffee in Portland, OR, on any given Saturday and you might see this sight: a dozen people gathered at individual tables, fingers ticking across their laptop…
Positive Vibrations: Bright Spots In Coffee
By Peter Giuliano There has been lots of scary news lately in the coffee world: environmental changes, economic instability, a volatile coffee market. It’s easy to focus on what’s wrong in the coffee…
Getting to Know Tim O’Connor
Q: Who are you and what do you do in coffee? A: Let’s reverse the order of that question–what I do in coffee is hard enough to answer! I’m actively involved in a…
