STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 19 BUILD YOUR TEA We develop individual packaging solutions according to your needs. Environmentally friendly, too. Hälssen & Lyon offers a unique range of premium teas, fruit blends, herbal infusi- ons, tea specialities, and instant products for your custom-made tea. Furthermore, we provide you with a large choice of packaging options. Do you want to launch an eco-friendly tea product? We are there to help with our longstanding expertise in producing tea products with packaging from naturally renewable raw materials. Beyond that, we can assist you with the planning of your production and the further development of your innovative product line to your customers' full satisfaction. Add your brand design and the product is ready to enter the market with impact, quality, and individuality! www.haelssen-lyon.com A significant amount of coffee's en- vironmental impact happens at the farm level, which means that a lot of the bur- den of adopting more sustainable prac- tices falls to coffee farmers. Addition- ally, coffee farmers are the part of the supply chain most vulnerable to climate change. "Coffee as a crop is being very threatened, and the farmers are carrying a lot of that risk as the weather patterns change and yields are impacted," says Se- manchin. In addition to investing in renew- able energy at home, Wonderstate works with importing organization Cooperative Coffees to build direct relationships with farmers. Cooperative Coffees searches for ways to remunerate farmers who adopt sustainable practices, like carbon seques- tration. For example, the Cool Farm Tool, a free tool for growers, measures green- house gas emissions, biodiversity man- agement, and water usage. Wonderstate is involved in developing a system to pay farmers for positive environmental im- pacts as measured by this tool. Solar power is being harnessed in the coffee industry in other ways. Italian technology company PuroSole devel- oped a solar system for roasting coffee. "We at PuroSole designed, built, and patented a small field of heliostats, which are simply motorized mirrors that all at the same time send the reflected sunlight towards the point where the container of the coffee being roasted is located," says Daniele Tommei, founding member and technical chief of PuroSole. "The results have been so encouraging that today we are here to produce and sell high-quality coffee as well as the solar system to be able to roast it." PuroSole's system is de- signed for small roasting companies. Other technology companies are tak- ing a different approach to sustainable roasting. Bellwether Coffee, based in Berkeley, California, offers a fully auto- mated, all-electric roasting system. "Coffee roasting accounts for 15% of the carbon footprint of coffee," says Grayson Caldwell, senior sustainability manager at Bellwether. "From an envi- ronmental perspective, the Bellwether roaster significantly reduces the carbon emissions and VOCs associated with the roast cycle." Bellwether's customers include independent coffee shops, bak- eries, restaurants, grocery chains, and direct-to-consumer wholesalers.

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