Positive Future #770 (Feature photo – Artists Rendition of the Cleve Hill Solar Park – Courtesy of https://www.clevehillsolar.com/) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of how the UK just approved its largest solar farm in the nation’s history. The final out put of the some 880,000 solar panels will be enough to power…
Positive Future #769 (Feature photo – Solar Water Purifies – Courtesy of GoSun ) https://gosun.co/) Inhabitat brings us the story of a GoSun solar water filtration backpack. While water filtration brings to mind outdoor recreation and filtering water from streams and lakes, the apparatus has more functions. Consider how many times power goes out and…
Positive Future #768 (Feature photo – Singapore – CCA 2.0 Generic, Ray in Manila) CNA news journalist Cindy Co brings us the story of how a gaming industry professional got into urban vertical farming in Singapore. Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. With a population of almost 6 million people, the whole country…
Positive Future #767 (Feature photo – Carbonated Drink – CCA 2.0 Generic, Simon Cousins) Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how the availability of carbon dioxide for beer and soda beverages is shrinking – raising the price and availability. The effect of economic and social lockdowns are perhaps deeper than anyone…
Positive Future #766 (Feature photo – Young Corn Crop – GNU Free Doc License 1.) Brightvibes brings us the story of how a Netherlands company is creating a plastic-like material from plant sugars. The plants being looked at include corn, wheat, or beets. While a plant-based alternative to plastic is interesting, the question remains just…
Positive Future #765 (Feature photo – Earth Map – By User:Cogito ergo sumo – File:BlankMap-World.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=372520) As covid fears recede, it gives back room to consider much larger concerns such as the well-being of 7.5 billion people. Our planet’s health and prioritizing our future economies for greater sensitivity to the world that…
Positive Future #764 (Feature photo – The World – NASA Public Domain) The New Yorker, one of the nations top weekly magazines, brings us a story by journalist Isacc Chotiner that is worth noting. While news of the covid 19 has dominated the public debate for several months now, is it possible that the covid…
Positive Future #763 (Feature photo – Closure and Delays at Shipping Ports Threaten Hundreds of Millions Of People – Public Domain) Covid Statistics, updated each day, reflect worldwide deaths of 346,000 so far. The Food Pandemic – made worse by economic disruption – has the potential to claim that many lives in just one day…
Positive Future #762 (Feature photo – Food Bank Volunteers – Courtesy of the U.S. Navy) Inhabitat brings the story of how farmers are being hurt and destroying food, while Food Banks are experiencing record-breaking demand. Economic disruption in the food chain is playing a most risky game. You can read the full story here: https://inhabitat.com/the-farm-to-food-bank-movement-rescues-pandemic-related-food-waste/
Positive Future #761 (Feature photo – Foodbank Distribution Warehouse – Public Domain) NPR a month ago reported that 10,000 cars lined up at a San Antonio emergency food distribution point – overwhelming what local food banks had prepared for. Why did this story not make headline news? Feeding America – the nation’s coordinating food bank…
