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US – Online coffee destination Trade is providing consumers with a personalised, education-led retail experience that delivers speciality coffee directly to their door.

With more than 350 US brands to choose from, Trade leads consumers to their perfect coffee through a short quiz that teases out preferences such as their preferred mode of brewing and strength of coffee. To ensure the best at-home experience, each coffee bag is roasted to order and shipped within 24 hours. Catering to a range of budgets and quantities, Trade’s prices range from £9.09 ($12.25, €10.34) for a 300g bag, to £40.07 ($54, €45.61) for 10 ounces.

For today’s youth, coffee has transformed from a consumable product to an experience-driven culture that allows them to connect with wider brands and people. Trade is tapping into this by creating a platform for exploration and education that explains the key differentiators between brands and beans.

India – The architecture firm Foster & Partners is continuing to demonstrate a civic-minded approach to design with plans to bring India’s first sustainable city to the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Located on the banks of the River Krishna, the new state capital Amaravati will benefit from fresh supplies of water and solar energy. Water taxis will be a key method of transport, in addition to electric vehicles, while dedicated cycling routes and shaded paths for walking will help to improve citizen health. Foster + Partners describe the development as uniting decades of research into sustainable cities, incorporating the latest technologies that are currently being developed in India.

As witnessed in Bangalore, pollution is one of the biggest concerns for citizens in countries such as India. In an effort to combat this, architects and brands alike are reimagining how to integrate sustainability across a larger scale.

A new study by researchers from the University of Sydney describes the major impact of tourism on the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. As the foundation of travel, transport is having a significant impact on the environment, as well as other tourist activities such as shopping and food consumption.

While governments and brands are learning how to better protect these environments from overtourism, consumers still lack understanding about what sustainable travel entails or how best to achieve it. The travel industry is now being challenged to ensure consumers are better educated in – and aware – of responsible travel practices.