Kiss the Hippo carbon negative

Keith Parkins
The Little Bicycle Coffee Shop
3 min readMay 11, 2021
Kiss the Hippo London’s carbon negative coffee company
Kiss the Hippo London’s first carbon negative coffee company

Since day one, sustainability has been at the core of everything we do. We never wanted to make empty gestures — we wanted to be pioneers, a brand that leads by example, encouraging bigger organisations to make positive changes in its wake. — Kiss the Hippo

Excellent news, Kiss the Hippo carbon negative.

Kiss the Hippo the only company in London to be recognised as carbon negative.

We hear much from companies that they are carbon neutral. Scratch away the greenwash and what we find is that they have planted a few trees as carbon offsets and are still emitting carbon.

Kiss the Hippo Forest in Nepal

Carbon neutral is not sufficient, we need carbon negative. We also need regenerative agriculture, to improve soil structure, carbon capture, grass-grazed herbivores. We also need rewilding, reforestation of our hills and water catchment areas, restoration of peat bogs, reintroduction of European beavers.

Kiss the Hippo bags of coffee and Broad Street house blend compostable coffee capsules
Kiss the Hippo bags of coffee and Broad Street house blend compostable coffee capsules

Kiss the Hippo is not only carbon negative, they are one of the top coffee roasteries in the country, supplying coffee beans and their Broad Street house blend in compostable coffee capsules.

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Keith Parkins
The Little Bicycle Coffee Shop

Writer, thinker, deep ecologist, social commentator, activist, enjoys music, literature and good food.