Positive Future #741 (Feature photo – Older Battery Storage Power Station in California – By Ysc usc – Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64315693) Renew Economy journalist Giles Parkinson brings us the story of a pending $300 million battery in Australia to help upgrade its electrical grid. Like the earlier 100MW Tesla battery installed to…
BrightVibes brings us the story of Waxworms – plastic eating caterpillars. It was discovered that the bacteria in the gut of the waxworms are able to break down the plastics. While the world is far from having enough waxworms in the right places, it is possible that the science behind the plastic-eating bacteria may lead…
Positive Future #738 (Feature photo – Electric Farm Tractor – Courtesy of Steven Heckeroth) Modern Farmer journalist Lindsay Campbell bring us the story of the emergence of electric farm tractors. Diesel tractors take 10 units of fossil-fuel energy to put one unit of food energy on American tables. You can read the full story here:…
Positive Future #738 (Feature photo – Solar Panels – By AleSpa – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29290121) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of a Chinese company – GCL Systems Integration Technology. This company plans to build the world’s largest solar panel factory. With a goal of producing 60 gigawatts of solar…
Positive Future #737 (Feature photo – Coffee Trees – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Jmhullot) Inhabitat News portal brings us the story of planting trees. Trees help with air quality. While it is not mainstream yet, questions are being asked about the link between air pollution and respiratory diseases. Th obvious question people are looking for…
Positive Future #736 (Feature photo – Unpolluted Garden – CCA SA 4.0 International, Basile Morin) Inhabitat journalist Teresa Bergen brings us a story that makes one wonder what happens when no one is looking. Recently the EPA announced that it will suspend enforcing environmental laws for the duration of the coronavirus situation. Since air pollution…
Positive Future #735 (Feature photo – The Dophin – By AllenMcC. – Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3952055) BrightVibes news portal brings us an interesting story of the 10 superpowers of dolphins. The story also comes with a great video clip to explain the powers. You can read and see the story here: https://brightvibes.com/915/en/10-surprising-superpowers-of-dolphins
Positive Future #734 (Feature photo – Public Housing Buildings – Public Domain) Curbed News journalist Jeff Andrews brings us news about the government stimulus package and housing – real estate. In short there is an escalation of money going into aspects of affordable housing. The federal money flowing into aspects of housing is in the…
Positive Future #733 (Feature photo – Volkswagen All-Electric ID3 – CCA SA 4.0 International, Alexander Migl) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us some behind the scenes insights worthy of note. While oil companies flounder with prices that cause alarm, Volkswagen just made a powerful announcement. Volkswagen now says it will have over 75 all electric…
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…
