Positive Future #604 (Feature photo – Tesla Charging Station – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Jusdafax) Irvine, California (a city of 250,000 people) is getting itself on the map as one of the first cities to have autonomous shuttle services by Botride. Hyundai has partnered with other tech companies to bring the service to reality. Hyundai…
Positive Future #601 (Feature photo – Senator Chuck Schumer – Public Domain) Prominent Senator Chuck Schumer from New York is moving up the ante on electric cars. The senator is working on a plan to promote clean, electric vehicles. The flip side is that he also wants to get rid of fossil-fuel cars. The plan…
Positive Future #603 (Feature photo – Topaz Solar Park in California Cost $2.5 Billion – By Pacific Southwest Region from Sacramento, US – Solar Panels at Topaz Solar 7, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36895370) Global financing for sustainable projects to include green, social and energy related projects has surpassed $1 trillion. That would be equivalent to $3,000…
Positive Future #602 (Feature photo – Egyptian Coat of Arms – By Flag of Egypt (variant).svg: F l a n k e r from original Flag of Egypt.svgderivative work: Fry1989 (talk) – Flag of Egypt (variant).svg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11907624) Renewable Energy World brings us the story of how Benban, the world’s largest solar park, is…
Positive Future #600 (Feature photo – Wild Bee – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Beatriz Moisset) Inhabitat journalist Mariecor Agravante brings us the story of Girl Scouts from Denver, Colorado who took up a project to build wild bee hotels and be part of positive change. You can read the full story here: https://inhabitat.com/girl-scouts-build-bee-hotels-to-help-save-wild-bees/…
Positive Future #599 (Feature photo – Gasoline Pump – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Anthony Inswasty) The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts is considering requiring climate warnings on gasoline pumps to increase awareness of the climate problem. While Cambridge is a small city of 110,000 people, it is part of the larger Boston metro area…
Positive Future #598 (Feature photo – Boise – CCA SA 4.0 International, Patrick Rodriguez) The problem with big populations living in congested coastal cities is that big populations precipitate big problems unanticipated just a few years ago. Almost 70 percent of Americans live within 100 miles from the coast. If the migration from coastal cities…
Positive Future #597 (Feature photo – Solar Park – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Chixoy) Forbes Journalist Dominic Dudley brings us the story of how a race is unfolding to provide the cheapest solar power to power grids. Who knows, as efficiencies grow, farming may completely change as mega-greenhouses in northern climes change the…
Positive Future #596 (Feature photo – A Floating Wind Turbine – CCA SA 4.0 International, Lo83)) Building offshore wind platforms can be expensive and often unfeasible. Now, technology and engineering have come together to created floating wind power generators. OffshoreWind.biz brings us the story of how this is happening. In the future – especially for…
Positive Future #595 (Feature photo – Diagram of Cold Fusion Coil System – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) CleanTechnica journalist Jennifer Sensiba, brings us the story of a patent filed for a fusion reactor. A small machine from 1 to 6.5 feet in size is purportedly capable of generating a…
