CGTN News brought the story first a couple of years ago as a large Chinese company began to build out the world’s largest complex of food greenhouses. Built in the desert in Egypt, the project has now built 600 greenhouses with a larger vision to ultimately build 3,000 greenhouses – each slightly larger than a…
The Newfoundland Provincial Government in Canada just allocated $100,000 to expand and enhance community gardens in the province. Last year the projected established 23 new community gardens and enhanced 78 others. Government intervention into local and urban food projects around the world are getting more visibility and hitting the news. You can read the story…
Touch the Soil News #1638 (Feature Photo – The Island Nation of the Philippines – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Addicted04) The Manila Bulletin brings us news of the dramatic spread of urban agriculture in the Philippines. In a nation of 100 million people, 12 million people now participate in the government’s urban agriculture program. This…
Positive Future #770 (Feature photo – Artists Rendition of the Cleve Hill Solar Park – Courtesy of https://www.clevehillsolar.com/) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of how the UK just approved its largest solar farm in the nation’s history. The final out put of the some 880,000 solar panels will be enough to power…
Positive Future #769 (Feature photo – Solar Water Purifies – Courtesy of GoSun ) https://gosun.co/) Inhabitat brings us the story of a GoSun solar water filtration backpack. While water filtration brings to mind outdoor recreation and filtering water from streams and lakes, the apparatus has more functions. Consider how many times power goes out and…
Positive Future #768 (Feature photo – Singapore – CCA 2.0 Generic, Ray in Manila) CNA news journalist Cindy Co brings us the story of how a gaming industry professional got into urban vertical farming in Singapore. Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. With a population of almost 6 million people, the whole country…
Positive Future #767 (Feature photo – Carbonated Drink – CCA 2.0 Generic, Simon Cousins) Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how the availability of carbon dioxide for beer and soda beverages is shrinking – raising the price and availability. The effect of economic and social lockdowns are perhaps deeper than anyone…
Positive Future #766 (Feature photo – Young Corn Crop – GNU Free Doc License 1.) Brightvibes brings us the story of how a Netherlands company is creating a plastic-like material from plant sugars. The plants being looked at include corn, wheat, or beets. While a plant-based alternative to plastic is interesting, the question remains just…
Touch the Soil News #1637 (Feature Photo – Victoria Empress Hotel – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Miladlaferrai) The Peninsula News Review brings us the story of the City of Victoria. Victoria is an internationally known vacation city that lies along the Pacific Ocean. Located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, the city is giving…
