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Cafes: Receive Your Sustainable Accreditation Today!
Our cafe registration process has had a face lift and we are very excited to launch a NEW accreditation for our Responsible Cafes! We’ve made it really easy for cafe owners to have an updated profile and receive their Responsible Cafes 2022 accreditation along with...
Are You Ready to Take the Sustainable September Challenge? …and Win?
How would you like to reduce your carbon footprint AND go in the running for one of four amazing sustainable prizes? Sustainable September has you covered. We love any excuse for an entire month dedicated to sustainability, so we’re very excited at Responsible Cafes...
BYOFridays: Now Streaming in Queensland
BYOFridays is now reaching 81,686 people per day through 5 digital billboards across Queensland with the help of Stream Outdoor! Thats a whole lot of keen beans! We are very excited here at Responsible Cafes because our BYOFriday campaign is now streaming across...
RC Team on Tour! Our South Australia Getaway
Our new Responsible Cafes team has spent the better part of six months working remotely from across Australia- from Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia to New South Wales! In May, we FINALLY got to meet together in person on our Responsible Cafes getaway...
RC Wins Highly Commended in WasteSorted Awards!
We are very excited to announce that Responsible Cafes was recently awarded Highly Commended in the 2022 WasteSorted awards in the Community Waste Award category! The WasteSorted awards are initiated by the Waste Authority WA and Government of Western Australia...
A Responsible Cafes Special Screening: Regenerating Australia
ONLINE EVENTGet your popcorn ready keen beans because Responsible Cafes is hosting a special donation-based screening of the new short film documentary Regenerating Australia. From the comfort on your own sofa, join us for the screening on the 7th of June 2022 from...
What’s Going on with the Price Increase of Coffee in Australia?
Has anyone else been inundated with coffee doomsday posts lately? Us too. The price of coffee in Australia is on the rise- here's what you need to know. As if the rising price of petrol wasn’t enough, now we’re hearing about one of Australia’s favourite beverages...
BYOC Meets RC
Hello keen beans - we are BYO Containers, here to help people all across Australia make the shift from single-use to reuse. We strive to normalise, promote and help both customers and businesses to say yes to reusing, refilling and BYO containers and to make it easier...
It’s Time to Step Up to Clean Up, Keen Beans!
Clean Up Australia Day, Sunday 6th March 2022
Thank God it’s BYOFriday!
Introducing Responsible Cafes’ newest campaign- Bring Your Own Fridays!
A New Keen Bean Team and Fresh New Initiative: Approved by RC!
The rumours are true, the lovely ladies at Responsible Cafes have passed the baton onto a new team of excited waste warriors- and we’d like to introduce ourselves! Responsible Cafes has been fortunate to have had an abundance of inspiring...
Cafes That Are Killing It – Kwila
Welcome to another Cafes That Are Killing It episode! Coming to you from Surry Hills in Sydney is an awesome responsible cafe - Kwila! We spoke to Kwila’s co-owner Mel about everything this cafe is doing to create positive impacts on the environment and the...
Cafes That Are Killing It – The Merri Cafe @ CERES
We are back again with another addition to our ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ series! This week the focus is on the Merri Cafe at CERES. For some context, CERES is an environmental education centre, community garden, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread...
CAFES THAT ARE KILLING IT – CAT & COW
Wow! Our list of ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ is certainly growing. We are so humbled to connect and work with such incredible businesses. Cat & Cow Coffee in Randwick, Sydney is a gold-bean cafe according to the Responsible Cafes rating system - an...
Cafes That Are Killing It: Eeny Meeny cafe
For this instalment of our Cafes That Are Killing It series, we are heading back to Melbourne to visit Eeny Meeny cafe in Frankston. Here we spoke to Chef Robbie Wright about what makes the Eeny Meeny cafe an inspiring, responsible and downright delicious place...
Cafes That Are Killing It: home.one cafe – SOCIETY MELBOURNE
Welcome back! Our ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ series is now onto its fourth edition. This time, the spotlight on Brunswick-based social enterprise cafe home.one! This micro-cafe is one of four social enterprises that makes up the Society Melbourne family - an...
MEET “I AM NOT PAPER” by Planet Ecologica
Here at Responsible Cafes, we are so lucky to be able to work with a whole bunch of awesome and inspiring companies doing incredible things for our planet. Planet Ecologica deserves an esteemed mention on this list! Not only are the founders stand up blokes, but they...
The Responsible Cafes Guide to the Circular Economy
Ah, the Circular Economy… It is a term you may have heard, you may have no idea about or you may have an expert understanding of. The phrase Circular Economy (CE) is used more and more today as a viable solution to our enormous waste problem, so it is important we...
Cafes That Are Killing It – Moon Rabbit Cafe
Welcome to the second instalment of the ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ blog series! This week, we are shining the spotlight on an incredible Melbourne-based environmentally innovative social enterprise - the Moon Rabbit Cafe. Of course, the incredible Moon Rabbit...
WATCH OUR FIRST CAFE SUMMIT!
Tune into this stellar line up of movers and shakers ready to percolate ideas into your mind and get us thinking about: - Reducing our collective waste and dependence on single-use plastic. - How cafes can be LEADERS in our community and drive social and environmental...
Cafes That Are Killing It – Republic Bakery
Welcome to the ‘Cafes That Are Killing It’ blog series! Up first, we are spotlighting the iconic Republic Bakery in Bondi and its incredible owner Muz. Muz met with the Responsible Cafes team to share his wisdom on running a successful environmental and socially...
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Drum roll please... introducing the AMAZING SPEAKERs FOR Responsible Cafes UPCOMING STRONGER TOGETHER CAFE SUMMIT! We are so lucky to have these incredible Keen Beans sharing their insight and inspiration on creating positive change in the cafe industry and...
Meet our beautiful step sister – UYO!
By JO HORSLEY Let's GET ONE THING STRAIGHT. RUNNING AN ENVIRONMENTAL NOT FOR PROFIT IS HARD BLOODY WORK! LAST WEEK I HAD THE PLEASURE TO SPEAK TO ONE OF MY FELLOW WASTE WARRIORS IN NEW ZEALAND WHO RUNS A KIND OF GORGEOUS STEP SISTER ORGANISATION CALLED UYO - USE YOUR...
Stronger Together Cafe Summit
Imagine a community where the local café is a model of responsible business practice, a champion for reducing their environmental impact, with great tasting coffee, nourishing menu options as well as a source of meaningful customer engagement and connection....
Leaching Microplastics in Your Coffee
Our biggest fears have been confirmed. The data is in. When hot water is poured into a plastic lined cup… what do you think happens to the contents of your super smooth and delicious latte? In a recent study by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur researchers set...
WA on the single-use ban wagon!
What is that we hear? Is the tide turning on single-use plastic and are governments finally listening to that changes that we all want and need? It would seem so. The Western Australian state government conducted over a 13 week period in 3 of Perth's metropolitan...
Spilling The Beans on Running Responsible Cafes During Covid-19
By Jo Horsley, written for Clean Up Australia I have been running Responsible Cafes since 2017. In the middle of 2019 I was thinking of hanging up my ‘do gooder’ hat and letting the movement fizzle out. I had been volunteering my time in the organisation for a few...
The “Why?” Behind our New Portal
At Responsible Cafes we want the human race around a long time and for that very, very, very long time, we want the Homo sapiens that are adopting sustainable practices to be celebrated for their efforts. Sure, things don't always go as planned "cough cough" but there...
Perfectly Imperfect
By Bruce Klaic It’s been a month since World Oceans Day which gave us 24 hours to reflect on the impact humans like yourself (I’m assuming) are having on the Oceans. The week before that we had World Environment Day encouraging awareness and action for the protection...
Queensland to Ban Plastic Straws, Plates, Cups and More
By Bruce Klaic “The Queensland government will move to ban plastic straws, cutlery, stirrers and plates in a bid to stem the destructive effects of plastic on marine life and waterways.” Good morning, good coffee and good news, what is better than that!? But...
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