Positive Future #636 (Feature photo – Inside a BYD Electric Bus – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Spielvogel) InsideEVs journalist Mark Kane brings us the story of the largest-ever electric bus order for Europe. Chinese electric bus manufacturer BYD recently announced it sold 259 electric buses in a single order destined for…
Positive Future #635 (Feature photo – Kansas City, Missouri Public Bus – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Ansacosf2010) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of how Kansas City, Missouri has decided to offer free public transportation. Free public transportation not only leaves more dollars for other necessities. It also offers a better…
Positive Future #634 (Feature photo – The Squad Solar Car – courtesy of Squad Mobility) CleanTechnica journalist Kyle Field brings is the story of Squad Mobility. Squad Mobility is a company from Amsterdam – the capital of the Netherlands. For $6,300, the company is offering a fully operational solar car that on sunny days is…
Positive Future #633 (Feature photo – Fukushima Disaster – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. IAEA Imagebank) In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster 8 years ago, Japan is re-authorizing the re-opening of many of the impacted nuclear reactors. At the heart of the re-authorization is a reactor that was closest to tsunami…
Positive Future #632 (Feature photo – Bobby Rush – Official photo – public domain) U.S. Representative Bobby Rush with others introduced legislation that would increase the availability of land and capital in communities to encourage more local urban agricultural production. One of the underlying goals is to improve food security for people in areas that…
Positive Future #631 (Feature photo – Amazon – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication., 20px|link=User:Kcida10|Kcida10 Kcida10 (talk) (Uploads)) Curbed journalist Patrick Sisson brings us the story of how Amazon may soon capture 50 cents out of every dollar spent online. That equates to selling a massive 12.6 billion items online in 2020. Amazon’s…
Positive Future #630 (Feature photo – Off Grid Box, courtesy of Off Grid Box) Bloomberg New Energy Finance brings us the latest story on getting power to the last 1 billion people. In an interview with Cathryn Chelminski of Off Grid Box, we learn more about solutions to providing energy to all the world. Ironically,…
Positive Future #629 (Feature photo – Schematic of Artificial Sun – Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, S. Li, H. Jiang, Z. Ren, C. Xu) HindustanTimes brings us the story of how the Chinese are planning to have a nuclear fusion generator (an artificial sun) in operation sometime in 2020. The apparatus is predicted to…
Positive Future #627 (Feature photo – Paper Straws to Replace Plastics – Sarah Stierch (CC BY 4.0)) Scientific American sizes up the top 10 emerging technologies of 2019. Interestingly, three of them are food and agriculture related. While technologies have a place in improving our future, the fact remains that our attitudes drive what technologies…
Positive Future #626 (Feature photo – Zero Emissions Tesla – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Jusdafax) EnerbyCentral journalist Lisa Prevost brings us the story of how Connecticut not only wants to populate its roads with more electric vehicles, but make it more equitable. Connecticut is one out of nine states that has signed on…
