✨ Newsletter Issue #3 - September 6th, 2025 ✨
Colorful book covers and bindings somewhere in Europe.
Welcome to the third edition of The CoSee Edit! CoSee is an eco-minded, values-led community fostering unexpected and new relationships through sustainable living. We are building something unique – digital and physical spaces and events where people can pause, share ideas, and support what matters.
As you head into the weekend, we bring you just 3 things to brighten it!
💭 A quote to carry with you
🌱 Brand Spotlight: Preface Coffee
♻️ How To: Elevate Your Morning Routine
Ready? Here we go! 🚀
A quote to begin 💭
"What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
Brand Spotlight | Micro-Roastery Edition ☕
As we’ve been dream-scaping CoSee, we’ve discovered thoughtful people building creative businesses that embody our values:
✨ Be intentional
✨ Fuel curiosity
✨ You do you
We’re always looking for people and projects that bring together books, coffee, and intentional living in meaningful ways.
Enter Preface Coffee, a Long Island City–based micro-roastery founded by Jeremy.
While living and studying in Cape Town, Jeremy dove into the opening pages of academic books in coffee shops with the hum of clinking dishes in the background and the quiet of the written word. When the path of academic research felt uncertain and he was growing disillusioned, his time as a barista revealed a new intersection: people, global affairs, and coffee as a form of storytelling.
From the beginning, Preface stretched beyond roasting with each coffee tied to a book genre and the roasting treated as an act of editing a manuscript – deliberate, careful, and without spoiling the hard work of the maker. His first partner was with Suited, a multi-roaster café in Manhattan’s financial district. From there, Preface has been writing its own chapters one roast at a time.
“We treat the roasting process as akin to editors in a publishing house. The aim is to roast excellent coffees for those seeking to slow down, read a book or write, and to be inspired by the brand itself.”
Jeremy’s favorite moment in the roasting process is at the tasting table where he samples coffees from producers and importers around the world. It’s at this juncture that he learns the most — about lesser-known regions, about the people at origin, and about his own palate. It’s where the imagination takes flight, deciding what “genre” a coffee might belong to and how its story will unfold in the cup.
Coffees are named after the coffee bean farmers and producers. One roast, Finca Filadelfia, produced by Danilo Gómez holds special meaning. Launched for his daughter’s first birthday, it carries a fairytale-like quality — playful, contemplative, and quietly magical. Jeremy pairs it with The Little Prince*, a reminder to hold onto childlike wonder and to let our dreams guide us forward.
Is it a book or is it a box of your new favorite coffee?
Enter the whimsical fairytale by purchasing Finca Filadelfia.
Looking ahead, Preface is writing an ambitious next chapter. Preface has already experimented with slipping Penguin’s Little Black Classics* into coffee orders (I’ve received one and it truly surprises and delights!). The success of that campaign has Jeremy dreaming of bigger collaborations with publishers and independent bookstores. His hope: to get good coffee and great literature into more hands — and more morning rituals.
Improve your day or someone else's by purchasing a delightful bag or two or three of Preface Coffee here.
Follow the story on Instagram: @prefacecoffee
How To | Elevate Your Morning Routine☀️
It’s back-to-school. Whether work is picking up, you have kids to run around with, or are starting up classes yourself, you might need that caffeine buzz. 🐝
Do you know what goes great with your everyday cup of (Preface?!) coffee? A new sustainability habit!
Move from single-use coffee filters to the coffee sock or a reusable coffee filter.
66% of American adults drink coffee daily. That’s over 170M cups per day and potentially many more filters.
Our recommendations for going reusable are:
Look for this label on textile products
What is GOTS?
A certification that verifies a product contains >70% organic, natural fibers.
Ensures environmentally and socially responsible practices across the textile supply chain.
Go forth and reuse!
Upcoming Events 🗓
🌍 Climate Week NYC: Sustainability Market Makers
🗓 Sept. 25 | 6–8 PM
📍Pier 57 Rooftop Park
Come for curated connections, rooftop vibes, and a community of changemakers.
RSVP here.
📚 Between the Covers: The Reading Rituals of Writers & Readers
🗓 Oct. 9 | 5–7:30 PM
📍Fabrik NYC | 12-16 Vestry Street, Tribeca
Calling all readers, writers, and thinkers! Join us for an evening all about reading resources and the folks leading reading, writing, and storytelling communities.
Early bird tickets are on sale now.
Until next time… 🤗
Thank you for being here. Forward this to a friend, reply to let us know what you’re reading or drinking, follow us on Instagram, reach out to [email protected] for partnership opportunities, or just stay tuned.
We’re building this together — 1 book, 1 cup, 1 sustainable, intentional habit at a time.
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