Positive Future #732 (Feature photo – Palm Oil Plantations on Previous Rainforest Land – CCA 2.o Generic, Achmad Rabin Taim) Amid allegations of lawbreaking, rainforests in the largest stretch of intact rainforest in Asia are being decimated to create the world’s largest palm oil plantation. The project is estimated to decimate 700,000 acres of rainforest…
Positive Future #731 (Feature photo – Tesla Cybertruck – By u/Kruzat but modified by User:Smnt – https://imgur.com/a/tp7JG6P but modified by User:Smnt, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84813507) InsideEVs journalist Eric Loveday brings us the story of the top ten countries according to their pre-orders of the Tesla Cybertruck. Back in November 2019, Tesla reported over 250,000 pre-orders…
Positive Future #730 (Feature photo – Dakota Access Pipeline Protest – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Desiree Kane) CleanTechnica Journalist Steve Hanley brings us news of how a Federal Judge ruled that the environmental permits were granted without adequate review or input by the indigenous communities impacted. The Judge ruled that all Federal Permits for the…
Positive Future #729 (Feature photo – Electric Brammo Motorcycle at Charging Station – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Hbmallin) CleanTechnic journalist Zachary Shahan brings us the story of how market shares for electric cars in Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands and Sweden are up in 2020. These four countries have a combined population of around 34 million…
Touch the Soil News #1600 (Feature Photo – A Community Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, Christian Bradford) Dallas Morning News journalist Ellise Pierce brings us the new of how gardening and food growing are a bright light in the lives of people during these times. Dallas even has its own Manager of Urban Agriculture…
Touch the Soil News #1598 (Feature photo – Moscow – By A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41219897) Plentiful Lands journalist Naomi Bosch brings us the story of two Russian mega-cities. Moscow with a population of 12.5 million people and St. Petersburg with a population of 5.3 million people have in times past…
Touch the Soil News #1597 (Feature photo – CityFarm Malaysia – from left) Niew Ley Koon, Looi Choon Beng, Koay, Low Cheng Yang and (centre) Chew Jo Han. Photos: CityFarm Malaysia) TheStar news portal brings us news about four engineers that have launched a successful vertical farming enterprise called CityFarm Malaysia. The company sets up…
Positive Future #728 (Feature photo – Tesla Model Y – CCA SA 4.0 International, Daniel Cardenas) InsideEvs journalist Andrei Nedelea brings us the first review of the new Tesla Model Y. The review is done by Doug DeMuro who goes over the 7-seat version of the Model Y. You can read the story here: https://insideevs.com/reviews/406057/doug-demuro-tesla-model-y/
Positive Future #727 (Feature photo – Siemens Battery Electric Train – Courtesy of Siemens) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of how Siemens will start supplying battery-electric trains in Germany. This is a big breakthrough as historically electric trains needed overhead supply wire sources. The new trains will be made up of two…
