Touch the Soil News #1460 (Feature photo – The Columbia – Public Domain) When it comes to food, we’ve got to eat. When it comes to housing, we need a roof over our heads. Now, the costs of these two basics are colliding as often there is not enough for both – driving discount foods…
Touch the Soil News #1459 (Feature photo – New York Farmers Market – By Dada1960 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65127776) Curbed news journalist Valeria Ricciulli brings us the story of a new rooftop farm. The new farm is a quarter of an acre located six stories up on the roof of a new…
Positive Future #595 (Feature photo – Diagram of Cold Fusion Coil System – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) CleanTechnica journalist Jennifer Sensiba, brings us the story of a patent filed for a fusion reactor. A small machine from 1 to 6.5 feet in size is purportedly capable of generating a…
Positive Future #594 (Feature photo – Wind Rotor Sails – CCA SA 3.0 Germany, Karstn Disk/Kat) CleanTechnica journalist Tina Casey brings us the story of rotor sails on ships to aid in their forward propulsion. There are other technologies that are being considered to not only lessen the environmental impact, but reduce the enormous costs…
Positive Future #593 (Feature photo – Mobile Food Lab – courtesy of https://www.mobilefoodlab.org/) Inhabitat journalist Nicole Jewell brings us the story of the Mobile Food Lab. It is a retrofitted bus that teaches children about sustainable and healthy eating habits. You can read the full story here: https://inhabitat.com/old-bus-is-converted-into-a-mobile-greenhouse-to-teach-students-about-sustainable-eating-habits/
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Touch the Soil News #1458 (Feature photo – Handling Grain – Public Domain) Gladstone Land is an investor owned company that specializes is owing farmland and leasing it back to proven agricultural producers. The company recently announced that it purchased two farms in Nebraska totaling 3,850 acres for $14.7 million. Plans are to convert the…
Touch the Soil News #1457 (Feature photo – Farm + Food Lab – courtesy of Solutions for Urban Agriculture) The non-profit Solutions for Urban Agriculture has teamed up with the city of Irvine to create the Farm + Food Lab. It is a place for people to go and see real-life urban agriculture and how…
Touch the Soil News #1456 (Feature photo – Urban Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Oztafi US) UrbanLand journalist Kevin Brass brings us a detailed discovery of Agrihoods – neighborhoods built around urban farms that feed residents. You can read the full story here: https://urbanland.uli.org/planning-design/what-does-the-farmer-say-about-agrihoods/
