YOUR BREW’S BRIMMING WITH PLANET PARTNERS
Via our 1% For The Planet membership, we give over 1% of our annual turnover to the organisation’s approved environmental non-profits. Like choosing from a mountain’s worth of great coffee samples, we’ve selected from thousands of organisations to arrive at this handful, taking inspiration from our coffees, and steered by our passionate Single O Sustainability Squad.
Partner 1: World Coffee Research
CLIMATE-PROOFING COFFEE
You might have heard us bang on about it. Coffee is alarmingly under-researched & under-developed, doesn’t fare well against climate change, and producers, increasingly being pushed below the poverty line*, should not bear the brunt to adapt.
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CLIMATE-PROOFING COFFEE
We’re one of around 200 roasters who ‘self-tax’ every kilo roasted to donate to WCR and their wicked science & innovation work in securing a sustainable future for coffee.
Our most exciting collaboration was to have roasted & served the first ‘Starmaya’ variety coffee, a promising climate-resilient Fl hybrid. Described by agricultural research and development organization CIRAD in Daily Coffее News as “a minor revolution for the industry”, Starmaya has recently been developed as coffee seeds for widespread commercial cultivation.
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*Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment, Barometer Report,
July 2021.
Partner 2: Take 3 For The Sea
PROTECTING OUR OCEANS
Our signature blend, Reservoir, was the muse that led us to choose the water-devoted Take 3 For The Sea. We love how this Sydney based, grassroots crew whip up direct action to remove plastic from our coasts & waterways.
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PROTECTING OUR OCEANS
During our Stand Against Waste campaign, we donated 10c for every reusable cup brought to our café to support Take 3’s mission.
We also admire how they get the next generation involved in the fight for planet, and on that note, our recent donation is funding their ‘Climate, Cleanup, and Classrooms’ program; interactive virtual sessions with high school students nationwide to help them gauge their carbon footprint.
Partner 3: Wheen Bee Foundation
BOOSTING BIODIVERSITY
Inspired by our Killerbee blend, which keeps Sydney cafes buzzing, we’re supporting Wheen Bee Foundation and giving the Sydney bee community a boost too. Our donation is funding a Powerful Pollinator Guide for Western Sydney & Inner City Surrounds.
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Partner 4: Pollinate Group
EMPOWERING WOMEN COMMUNITY LEADERS
Yeehah! blend is bold and features a small portion of high-grade Indian Robusta from Chikmagalur. It spurred us toward Pollinate Group, who do epic work equipping women from marginalised communities (including Chikmagalur) to help them find their voice, earn a dignified income and make a meaningful contribution as leaders of their communities.
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EMPOWERING WOMEN COMMUNITY LEADERS
Our donation is helping to provide women leaders in the State of Karnataka with business, marketing and sales skills, as well as mentorship and coaching.
We’re stoked that the deliciously bold Yeehah! has led us to help make an impact against India’s gender inequality, poverty and climate change.
Partner 5: WeForest
RESTORING THREATENED FORESTS
While zooming in on eco-projects in coffee’s birthplace nation, Ethiopia, we came across the formidable WeForest. Among other projects on the boil, this group is going hard at conserving the Desa’a, one of Ethiopia’s oldest remaining dry Afromontane forests.
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RESTORING THREATENED FORESTS
It’s an ongoing 12-year project to reverse land degradation and support forest friendly livelihoods across 14 rural villages.
Playing our small part, Single O’s funding is regenerating 5.9 hectares, equivalent to 5740 trees, planted in July and August 2021. This will also sequester a potential 932t Co2 over 50 years and contribute to reversing land degradation and poverty in the Desa’a Forest. It’s another way to give back to a nation that’s given us so many incredible coffees.
Partner 6: Greenfleet
CAPTURING EMISSIONS
We’re busy whittling down our carbon footprint. In the meantime, we’re stoked to say we’ve 100% offset it, and reached carbon neutral. Not all carbon offsets are created equal, but we sure are pleased with the quality of ours, via partner Greenfleet.
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CAPTURING EMISSIONS
Our Greenfleet offets have gone toward planting in 2021 Autumn and Winter; On Yuggera Country, QLD, a collab with QLD Trust for Nature on the Aroona Cattle Station has seen ecosystem regeneration & agriculture sit side by side.
On Kabi Kabi Country, QLD, restoration at Dangerbridge has created tree diversity & prime koala food. Koalas also benefit on Bundjalung Country, NSW, with the establishment of a forest at Greentrees on the Wilson River.