Positive Future #794 (Feature photo – Nikola truck platform for garbage trucks – courtesy of Nikola) While garbage trucks do not usually make history, CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us a different story. Nikola Motors just sold 2,500 electric truck platforms for garbage trucks to Republic Waste Services. Republic is one of the largest waste-service…
Positive Future #793 (Feature photo – Restaurant Closures – public domain) The global food price index has been rising steadily for the past 3 years as economies grew and more people could afford better diets. In 2020, with unprecedented purposeful global economic covid shutdowns, the food price index dropped, making food more affordable as the…
Positive Future #792 (Feature photo – Malaysia From Space – courtesy of NASA) Have you ever heard of the Forest City in Malaysia? It is one of the world’s largest planned city projects with an estimated cost of $100 billion. The project is a cooperative effort of a Chinese company and a Malaysian government sponsored…
Positive Future #791 (Feature photo – Vertical Harvest Concept – courtesy of Vertical Harvest) Agritecture brings us the story of Vertical Harvest’s plans to open another location in Westbrook. Maine, a small community of 20,000 people. The project is a 70,000 square foot facility that is almost four stories high is expected to produce 1…
Positive Future #790 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Tomatoes – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, GFDL) Agritecture brings us the story of a new agricultural company called Arugga AI Farming that is looking to upgrade how controlled environment farming unfolds. One of their projects is to artificially pollinate greenhouse tomatoes. You can read the story here: https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/7/10/this-robot-uses-ai-to-pollinate-greenhouse-tomatoes
Positive Future #789 (Feature photo – Standing Rock Sioux Indian Logo – Public Domain) Perhaps the most high-profile Indian initiative in modern history is the efforts of several Sioux Indian Tribes to stop the Dakota Pipeline. After being intimidated while challenging the environmental assessment reports in 2017, the Indians recently had a victory. U.S. District…
Positive Future #788 (Feature photo – Compost – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Crystalclear) BioCycle journalist Karen Dawson brings us the story of new legislation in Washington obliging municipalities to use compost whenever possible. An emerging issue in all metropolitan areas is how to deal with garbage and waste with landfills that are being used up…
Positive Future #786 (Feature photo – Hemp Fiber Board – By Elke Wetzig (elya) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8383485) The Hemp Industries Association brings updates on the various building applications for hemp. The nation’s housing crisis of an extreme shortage of housing units – 2.5 million housing units short – means we can…
Positive Future #785 (Feature photo – Hemp Shorts– By Matti Blume – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70056222 The story of hemp spans centuries as a material for textiles (cloth), particularly for the sails of big ships. Today, hemp clothing is gaining in popularity and in availability. You can see more the story here:
Positive Future #784 (Feature photo – Flag of Great Britain – Public Domain) CleanTechnica Journalist Dr. Maximillian Holland reports that June plug-in auto sales in the United Kingdom reached 9.5 percent of the car market for the month of June. This could be a sign that the electrification of transportation is gaining rapidly over the…
