Touch the Soil News #1694 (Feature Photo – Palm Oil Farm in Malaysia – CCA 1.0 Generic) FarmlandGrab.com reports on a story of significant proportions – the exploitation of millions of farm worker in Asia. The story starts with a migrant worker whose passport and legal papers were confiscated and then lost. This sent him…
Touch the Soil News #1693 (Feature Photo – Philippines a nation of islands – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Perhaps no nation in the world is so focused on developing urban agriculture than the nation of the Philippines. From military personnel and police officers planting urban gardens to Philippine Department of agriculture, millions of people are…
Positive Future #817 (Feature photo – Satellite Photo of Chicago – CCA Sa 3.0 IGO) WTTW News brings us a story from Chicago that reveals how growing your own food was derailed by covid concerns and artificial barriers to water. The right and opportunity to grow your own food has – in Chicago – taken…
Positive Future #816 (Feature photo – Air Pollution – National Archives) Investorideas.com brings us the latest on the good and bad of cities and their quality of air. Can you guess the worst and the best? Awareness is always the first step to solving any issue. You wouldn’t want your food garden to be a…
Touch the Soil News #1692 (Feature Photo – A U.S. farm planted into corn – Public Domain) Farmlandgrab.org brings us more insights on who is buying American farms. A large player is Homestead Capital. Homestead Capital invests other people’s money into buying and owning farmland. New on the block is the State Universities Retirement System…
Touch the Soil News #1691 (Feature Photo – Agripolis – courtesy of Valode and Pistre Architectes Atlay, AJN) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings the story of one of the largest rooftop farms in the world that is just now gearing up to full production. Ultimately 20 full-time staff will harvest 2,200 lbs. of produce consisting of…
Positive Future #815 (Feature photo Tesla Model Y – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica journalist Jesper Berggreen brings us the story of how Denmark is steadily increasing the number of electrified cars on the road. For the first time, electrified cars had more sales than cars with diesel engines. You can read the story here: …
Positive Future #814 (Feature photo – Lettuce Greens – CCA SA 4.) International – Daniel Penfield) Crunchbase News journalist Marlize Van Romburgh brings us the story of Infarm. Infarm – based in Berlin, Germany – is becoming a leader in developing and putting vertical food growing appliances in grocery stores. The salad greens are grown…
Touch the Soil News #1690 (Feature Photo – Nile River – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=132837) Water is essential and overallocation of water resources is not just a problem for the 11 nations along the Nile river. Overallocation of water is at the heart of tensions for over half the United States from the Ogallala aquifer to…
