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1 week ago | 
lacombeexpress.com | Sarah Baker
Lacombe city council approved the 2024 Strategic Plan update during its last council meeting.
The 2024 Strategic Plan outlines the status and highlights the success of the council's priorities over the current term.
Updates to the Strategic Plan included items labelled as high-priority, which council identified during a prioritization workshop in 2024.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
MasterChef judge and journalist Sofia Levin talks to BeanScene about the café culture that helped kickstart her food career, and the cultural diversity found through Melbourne’s brunch scene. Thirteen years ago, an up-and-coming journalist and blogger by the name of Sofia Levin contributed to an article in BeanScene about the influence social media was having on café preferences.
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May 27, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
Author Robert Schneider has released the third book in its series titled Café Cool. It features a curated selection of 39 cafés and coffee shops and roasteries in 26 cities around the world, illustrated with full-colour images. The curated selection shares a focus on modern contemporary designs, interior designs, and showcases independent, local coffee hubs that sit at the heart of communities.
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May 23, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
Italian espresso machines manufacturer La Marzocco has supported the opening of the University of California Davis Coffee Center, the first academic research and teaching facility in the United States entirely dedicated to studying coffee. “We’re proud to help the UC Davis Coffee Center bring their excellent focus on agriculture and engineering to espresso,” says Guido Bernardinelli, CEO of La Marzocco.
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May 23, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
A new research study in South Australia shows that composting food waste and compostable packaging via council provided kerbside FOGO (food organics and garden organics) bins is a viable and effective waste management solution. Backed by BioPak, the research was a collaboration between Compost Connect and Edge Impact, with the objective to understand compostable packaging recovery outcomes, success factors, and the impact of compostable packaging on improving food waste and packaging diversion.
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May 23, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
Freshly brewed coffee concrete may be coming to a street near you. RMIT University in Melbourne has teamed up with Macedon Ranges Shire Council to conduct a world-first coffee concrete footpath trial. Several other upcoming infrastructure projects around Victoria will also turn spent coffee grounds into biochar and transform the waste into a valuable resource for the construction industry.
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May 21, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
Event organisers can confirm that the 2025 Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) will take place from 20 to 22 March at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. “We’re thrilled to see MICE come back to March, hold its position in the annual calendar of international coffee events, and be recognised as the country’s annual go-to event,” says Show Director Lauren Chartres.
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May 21, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
The Northern Territory Government has awarded a $23,825 tender to The Good Good Way initiative to continue reducing single use plastics. The Territory Government will work with cafés and food and beverage outlets to trial the reusable coffee cup system and help cafés owners learn how it can be integrated into their business as an alternative to take away cups. Customers can simply borrow a cup for a small deposit and return it at any participating café.
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May 21, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has announced that the 2025 World Barista Championship (WBC), the industry’s premier competitive coffee event, will take place at HostMilano from 17 to 21 October 2025. The WBC returns to Fiera Milano (Rho), Milan, after last being hosted at HostMilano in 2021. HostMilano exhibition is the global biannual epicenter for the Horeca and Food Service industry, offering a platform for innovation, networking, and the latest trends in hospitality.
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May 20, 2024 | 
beanscenemag.com.au | Sarah Baker
The Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) has concluded for another year, with this year’s edition seeing 10,897 visitors walk through the doors of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 12 to 14 May. “We couldn’t be happier to hit our target attendance number for 2024. This year’s event was vibrant, well attended from representatives of all segments of the global coffee supply chain and held its purpose as a space for industry buyers and sellers to do business.
