Positive Future #526 (Feature photo – Location Map of Ethiopia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Semhur) It used to be that 35 percent of the Ethiopian landscape was covered with trees – now there is only 4 percent of the landscape is covered by trees. In a national effort to start…
Positive Future #532 (Feature photo – Lightyear One Solar Car – By Lightyear01 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80320081) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings us more on the recently unveiled solar powered car called the Lightyear One. With an ability to charge from the power grid, the installed solar panels can add up to…
Positive Future #531 (Feature photo – Flag of Rhode Island – Public Domain) Rhode Island, with a population of little over 1 million people is the smallest state in the nation. However, this small state is going big time in suing 23 oil companies for damages the state has endured from climate change. CleanTechnica journalist…
Positive Future #530 (Feature photo – Flag of Kenya – Public Domain) GivePower just installed a solar-powered desalination plant in Kenya, Africa. The project desalinates almost 20,000 gallons of water from the Indian Ocean to produce clean drinkable water to some 25,000 people. As the world’s basic resources become more scarce – pushing up prices…
Positive Future #529 (Feature photo – Flooded Corn Field – Public Domain) Investorideas.com brings an interesting story. Insurance companies who pay out big for weather events due to global warming want coal to go away. Considering that farmers are often the first hit by extreme weather, should they follow suit? You can read the full…
Positive Future #528 (Feature photo – Houston Traffic – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Dhanix) Curbed journalist Patrick Sisson bring us news about how one of America’s mega-cities – Houston – plans to deal with car congestions. The plan is to spend approximately 280 million dollars per mile to widen or upgrade…
Positive Future #527 (Feature photo – Porsche Fatcory – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license – Lain Cameron) There is little question that Tesla is the front-runner in electric car sales today. Porsche, on the other hand, has been working diligently to come out with a high-performance electric car. CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley reports on…
Positive Future #525 (Feature photo – Older version of the Tesla Powerwall – Public Domain) Tesla just announced its new energy storage solution called the Megapack. Tesla touts that they can now build battery storage facility for peak power needs capable of 1GWh of storage. Now that’s getting big. You can read more of the…
Positive Future #524 (Feature photo – Electric Cars Charging at a Solar Car Charging Station – Public Domain) Global economics have been flat for the past 4 years when it comes to gas car sales. While some parts of the world go up, other parts go down. Statista reports that global car sales have been…
Positive Future #523 (Feature photo Africa Map – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Martin23230) Making news recently is the continuing interest by China in investing in Africa. Of the roughly $58 billion China is planning to invest over the next 3 years, roughly $18 billion falls under the umbrella of concessionary finance.…
