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New Wave Coffee

Bellwether Coffee

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New Wave Coffee is a six episode series, where we take you on an audio journey to the future of everything coffee. Join Arno Holschuh and Liz Pachaud as they speak to industry experts and think creatively on the coffee industry's most pressing topics: flavor, technology, price, climate change, and more. Here at Bellwether, we believe we can create a coffee industry that is more inclusive and equitable, where running a coffee business can be both more profitable and more sustainable.
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Welcome to the podcast that explores how to craft an intentional, thriving life in the face of the coming environmental changes and amongst society's shifting tides. If you believe the examined life is not worth living, and you love hearing about people who are succeeding while doing good in the world, this is the place for you. Welcome to The SloCrafted Life.
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Future Days

Joanna Ellis and Peter Brambl

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How do we design for a changing world? How do we reimagine transportation, medicine, energy? How do we educate young people for tomorrow’s careers? How will technology change culture? Future Days is a podcast that explores these questions, diving into the forces that are shaping design and creativity today and how we plan for a world of tomorrow. Join us, Peter Brambl and Joanna Ellis, co-founders of the creative strategy company Belmondo. We’ve spent years collaborating with innovators work ...
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As we move through our cities and suburbs, we’re part of an invisible flow— the design of the urban grid itself. As we look the future, we have an opportunity to reimagine these environments. How will the remote work revolution affect office spaces and commuting patterns? How can cities mitigate the impacts of climate change? Join us as we speak wi…
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Coffee— hard to imagine civil society without it. And yet, the coffee industry creates significant carbon emissions, and its markets don't provide a living income to most of the world’s farmers. If climate change continues, this farming could be unsustainable. But there is another way. In this episode, we talk with Grayson Caldwell, Senior Sustaina…
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In this episode, we talk with Brooke Hopper, Principal Designer Emerging AI & ML at Adobe. We take a look at Adobe's new product Firefly, which puts advanced AI imaging tools in the hands of millions of creatives. We discuss the history of AI imaging tools, how people are using them, and where this field is going. We'll also talk about the implicat…
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What happens when artificial intelligence learns to write code? Join us as we talk with AI expert Matt Welsh about this brave new world. Matt believes that AIs will eventually replace software engineers, and he is working on a new platform, Fixie.ai, that deploys AI “agents” that can talk to each other and collaborate on the design and deployment o…
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In Part 2 of our Climate Series, we talk to Jonathan Strauss, co-founder and CEO of Climate Draft, an organization that is accelerating the transition of top talent to climate related work. Topics covered: Jonathan's journey from traditional startups to emerging climate tech The vast investment of capital pouring into climate technology Changing th…
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Part 1 of 2 in our Climate Change series, recorded live at SF Climate Week. This panel discussion features Tim Wolters and Leah Bowes, co-founders of CrowdSolve. Crowdsolve is a platform that accelerates climate startups at scale. We talk about how individuals can invest in this new crop of companies, what climate technologies are promising, and ho…
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How do we design for a changing world? How will technology change culture? Future Days is a podcast that explores these questions, diving into the forces that are shaping design and creativity today and how we plan for a world of tomorrow. Join us, Peter Brambl and Joanna Ellis, co-founders of the creative strategy company Belmondo. We’ve spent yea…
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Recent years have seen a spike in the retail price for coffee paid by consumers in their local stores and cafes. But, despite that, the price farmers get paid for coffee hasn’t meaningfully changed in four decades. Coffee farmers are at the whim of a complex global commodities exchange that leaves them powerless to set their own prices and subject …
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Owning a small business is hard. Like, really, really hard. The last two years have made it almost impossible. Even before COVID upended the independent cafe model and turned all our coffee shops into sidewalk cafes and mini bodegas, coffee businesses have had to get creative to continue thriving in a crowded field, and survive in a world of high c…
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Almost all of the carbon footprint in your morning cup of coffee is created after it leaves the farm, and yet farmers are the ones experiencing outsized, immediate impacts of carbon related climate change. Sustainability experts, coffee farmers and climate researchers weigh in on where carbon lives in the coffee lifecycle (and where it doesn’t), th…
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In the coffee industry, we associate quality with craft, and craft almost always means manual, handmade, and low tech. However, some cafe owners and coffee professionals are discovering that manual and handmade can mean inconsistency, inefficiency and inability to scale. In an industry that’s increasingly competitive, where labor costs more but pri…
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Perhaps the most controversial topic in all of modern coffee, we dive deep into the question of flavor and ask the questions we’ve all been wondering - Who gets to decide what tastes good? Why does it seem that so many cafes are suddenly serving coffee that only appeals to a certain palate? And how, exactly, did flavor become a matter of taste. Par…
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Teresa von Fuchs heads up a team of innovators at Bellwether Coffee, a venture-backed startup aiming to make coffee shops more sustainable not only for the environment, but for the people who own and work in them. When we talk about sustainability in the coffee shop industry, we have to talk about financial sustainability of the business and the su…
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