BACKGROUND:

In 2021 Single O turns 18! And we want to celebrate! However, given the average age of our staff is around 30, that ‘18 feeling’ is a ‘lil hard to truly remember. So, being the authentic brand that we are, we’d prefer to let someone who is living that 18 feeling to tell us what that is really like – through a piece of art. This is an exciting opportunity for an 18-year-old creative/artist to design/create the label for our next limited release 18th birthday coffee.
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Despite Scomo claiming that café’s aren’t going to contribute to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, we’re just not ones to sit around and wait for politicians to take action on climate change.

Quite the contrary. Maybe it’s got something to do with our caffeine levels, but we’ve been working double-time on our carbon footprint. We’ve just achieved Carbon Neutrality. And since January this year, have been 1% For The Planet members. You see, Scomo, even though we’re a tiny speck of a business on this earth, we’ve all got to do our bit and make this climate change thing as top of mind as coffee is each morning.
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We’re roasters not mathematicians but know bad stats when we see them. Like the finding from IUCN Red List of Threatened Species that, due to climate change, at least 60% of coffee species are at risk of disappearing. And, from the 2016 report by The Climate Institute, that coffee production could be cut in half by 2050. Then there’s this - only 3% of philanthropy goes to environmental causes. Of that, only 5% comes from corporations.
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UPDATE: FEB 2021

WHAT IS PURA CEPA?

The word “sustainability” is thrown around like it’s goin’ outta fashion, but Pura Cepa is the real McCoy when it comes to the “s” word. They’re using science in next level ways to improve the quality of coffee & of lives at every point of the supply chain.
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