Positive Future #749 (Feature photo – Carbon Dioxide Removal Installation (artist’s rendering) – Courtesy of Carbon Engineering) There is little question – since agriculture has one of the largest terrestrial footprints – that climate will affect agriculture. It will be droughts and water that define challenges in the future. A new company called Carbon Engineering…
Positive Future #748 (Feature photo – Porsche Taycan – CCA SA 4.0 International, Alexande Migl) Inside EVs journalist Mark Kane brings us insights into the mileage ratings of more than 20 fully electric cars available in the U.S. Some of the newer Tesla models have ranges coming close to 400 miles per charge. You can…
Positive Future #747 (Feature photo – ProTerra Electric City Bus – By Jonathunder – Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63468921) The World Health Organization reports that some 4.6 million people die a year due to air pollution and often related respiratory problems. One must ask – does air pollution make us more susceptible to respiratory problems?…
Positive Future #746 (Feature photo – MellowVan – Courtesy of TakeAlot/Mr.D) CleanTechnica Journalist Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai brings us the story of MellowVans. Manufactured in South Africa, these modest delivery vans can operate on less than $1 a day. For a small company, MelloVans already has customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and soon…
Positive Future #745 (Feature photo – AeroMines – Sandia National Laboratories) Decentralizing energy is certainly a trend, not only for developing sustainable energy platforms, but for solving the vulnerability of large power grids. Inventor Dr. Carsten Wetergaard ( https://aerominepower.com/) has developed a new kind of wind generator that is small and fits on rooftops. When…
Positive Future #744 (Feature photo – Waste – Public Domain) One of the most powerful movers of change is an idea whose time has come. GreenBiz journalist Remy Le Moigne brings us the story of how industry must design waste out of the equation. If materials are too concentrated for nature to naturally recycle them,…
Positive Future #743 (Feature photo – Cow With Calf – CCA SA 3.0, Uberprutser) Recently the heads of the World Health Organization, The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Trade Organization warned of the trade shutdowns and the existential risk to food security. In a reversal of fortunes, some dairy farms are now having…
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…
Positive Future #740 (Feature photo – Waxworms – By Sam Droege – https://www.flickr.com/photos/54563451@N08/19051745004/ , Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41690212) 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…
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:…
