Positive Future #645 (Feature photo – Wood Toys – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Meronim) The small town of Washington in England is in a metro center of about 300,000. In this small town, history has been made over the past two years. Emily Padgett turned a preschool nursery into a plastic free environment…
Positive Future #644 (Feature photo – Electric Car Battery Pack – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Tennen-Gas) The Energy Mix news portal reports on the dropping cost of batteries for electric cars. Car batteries for electric cars dropped 87 percent since 2010 and 50 percent since 2018. At a low price of $156 per…
Positive Future #643 (Feature photo – Tesla Model 3 – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Vauxford) Only four (4) of the 20 best-selling cars in America (November 2019) are made in America. One of them is the Tesla Model 3 – coming in at number 10. For the fits 9 months of the year,…
Positive Future #642 (Feature photo – The Swiss National Parliament – courtesy of http://www.parlament.ch) EnergyMix news portal brings us the story of the Swiss Parliament which is on a course of action to arrest climate change. As part of its efforts, plans are to instruct the Swiss National Bank (Switzerland’s central bank) to divest itself…
Positive Future #641 (Feature photo – Harbour Air – Electric Airplane – courtesy Harbour Air ) Harbour Air announced the first successful flight of a commercial electric airplane – a six-seater seaplane. Harbour Air is North America’s largest seaplane airline with over 40 dedicated aircraft and serving 500,000 people a year. This marks the first…
Positive Future #640 (Feature photo – California Wildfire – Public Domain ) The dramatic electricity blackouts in California are unprecedented for a first-world nation. If keeping the lights on for millions of people cannot be assured, what’s next? The state of California is making hundreds of millions of dollars available to build solar and battery…
Positive Future #639 (Feature photo – Solar Power Chicken Coop – courtesy of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano.) Inhabitat brings us the news of the solar powered mobile chicken coop. Being able to move the chicken coop around the farm for foraging and fertilizing is a great convenience. The protective sides and roof…
Positive Future #638 (Feature photo – Typhoon Haiyan Destruction – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Trocaire) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley uncovers a rather disconcerting study. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights did a study on those responsible for climate change and the devastation wrought on the country by Tyhpoon Haiyan. Typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest…
Positive Future #638 (Feature photo – Typhoon Haiyan Destruction – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Trocaire) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley uncovers a rather disconcerting study. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights did a study on those responsible for climate change and the devastation wrought on the country by Tyhpoon Haiyan. Typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest…
Positive Future #637 (Feature photo – Iowa School Students Helping with Landscaping Needs – photo courtesy of The Dove TV. Have you ever thought about doing exercise repetitions and at the end you had nothing to show for it? Now, students from the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque, Iowa get physical education credits for helping…
