Touch the Soil News #1332 (Feature photo – The Brasserie 2050 Restaurant –Courtesy of the Brasserie 2050 Restaurant) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings news of a new prototype of restaurant that has zero food and material waste that opened last fall in the Netherlands. Called the Brasserie 2050, the new foray into sustainable eating raises…
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Animals in Urban Farming
Touch the Soil News #1331 (Feature photo – Urban Cow –CCA SA 3.0 Unported) New Food journalist Sam Block brings an interesting story how the local foods trend is bringing farm animals into the city. For urban farmers that integrate livestock into their production plans, the story has material insights. The story surrounds how cities…
Intentional Climate-Change Economics – Solar Program for 1.75 Million Homes
Positive Future #465 (Feature photo – Jeremy Corbyn – Leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Inhabitat journalist Lucienne Cross reports on how Britain’s Labour Party launched a new green program. Plans are to install solar panels on up to 1.74 million government-subsidized and low-income houses. The goal is to radically…
U.S. Solar Installations – Geometric Growth
Positive Future #464 (Feature photo – Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International) GreenTechMedia reports that U.S. now has over 2 million solar installations. It took 40 years to install the first million and just 3 years to install the second million. As solar power continues to become less expensive, estimates are that solar will…
Saudi Arabia – Experimenting With Salt Water Agriculture
Touch the Soil News #1330 (Feature photo – Emblem of Saudi Arabia – Public Domain) AgFunder News brings some interesting developments that have major implications for food insecure nations with lots of desert adjacent to salt water oceans. Startup Red Sea Farms (https://www.redseafarms.com/) is making news as it looks to commercialize greenhouses that can use…
Brad Paisley Opens a Free Grocery Store
Positive Future #463 (Feature photo – Brad Paisley Performing at the White House in 2009 – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com) explores the new opening of a free grocery store by Brad Paisley. Brad’s vision came from volunteering at a similar project in Santa Barbara, California. While free grocery stores will not dominate the landscape…
Jury Awards $2 Billion to California Couple for Health Damages from Round Up
Positive Future #462 (Feature photo – March Against Monsanto – CCA 2.0 Generic) The world hasn’t seen the massive protests against Monsanto and its Round Up herbicide containing glyphosate lately. Then Monsanto sold out to Bayer Ag of Germany in 2018. Back in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (which is affiliated with…
College Students Embrace Organic Farming and Beekeeping
Touch the Soil News #1329 (Feature photo – Bee Keeping – courtesy of the Savannah College of Art and Design) The Savannah College of Art and Design is creating a legacy activity – organic farming and beekeeping. Founded in 1978, the college has over 13,000 students on several campuses. Inhabitat journalist Lucy Wang reports on…
Is Urban Farming Becoming a Social Movement?
Touch the Soil News #1328 (Feature photo – Calgary City Flag – Public Domain) The city of Calgary in the Canadian Province of Alberta is the heart of a metro area of some 1.4 million people. The Calgary Herald reports that the City of Calgary, the Compost Council of Canada and a number of urban…