Positive Future #468 (Feature photo – Offshore Wind Farm – CCA SA 2.0 Generic – Rob Farrow) GreenTechMedia journalist Karl Stromsta brings news of the world’s largest wind turbine that is to be deployed in Europe. Good for Americans, the Haliade-X is made by General Electrics. General Electric was founded by Thomas Edison – inventor…
Positive Future #467 (Feature photo – Gas Cars on a Highway – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Atlantacitizen)) While there is no guarantee that a particular piece of legislation will make it to law, the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act has been proposed in both the House of Representative and the U.S. Senate. The bill would eliminate…
Positive Future #466 (Feature photo – The Rivian Electric Truck – CCA SA 4.0 International) There are currently 46 different models of cars with a plug in feature for sale in the U.S. MYEV journalist Jim Gorzelany reveals that there may be as many as 11 more electric car models coming to market in 2020.…
Positive Future #465 (Feature photo – Jeremy Corbyn – Leader of Great Britain’s Labour Party – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Inhabitat journalist Lucienne Cross reports on how Britain’s Labour Party launched a new green program. Plans are to install solar panels on up to 1.74 million government-subsidized and low-income houses. The goal is to radically…
Positive Future #463 (Feature photo – Brad Paisley Performing at the White House in 2009 – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com) explores the new opening of a free grocery store by Brad Paisley. Brad’s vision came from volunteering at a similar project in Santa Barbara, California. While free grocery stores will not dominate the landscape…
Positive Future #462 (Feature photo – March Against Monsanto – CCA 2.0 Generic) The world hasn’t seen the massive protests against Monsanto and its Round Up herbicide containing glyphosate lately. Then Monsanto sold out to Bayer Ag of Germany in 2018. Back in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (which is affiliated with…
Positive Future #461 (Feature photo – Extinction Rebellion Poster – CCA 2.0 Generic) The words and phrases surrounding climate change have recently become more focused and urgent. A new concept is Extinction Rebellion. Extinction Rebellion began in 2018 in Great Britain. The British Members of Parliament recently declare climate as a national emergency. One must…
Positive Future #460 (Feature photo – Subsidized Housing in New York City – Public Domain) Curbed Journalist Jeff Andrews brings us a scary story about what the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is contemplating. According to HUD, a new plan could result in evicting more than 55,000 children from their immigrant parents…
Positive Future #459 (Feature photo – Zipline Medical Drone – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica Journalist Jesper Berggreen brings us the story of how a small company in Rwanda, Africa has moved ahead of major industrial companies in first world nations to create a working drone delivery service for medical supplies. The technology employed is…
Positive Future #458 (Feature photo – Californian Flag – public domain) Inhabitat Journalist Lucienne Cross brings us the story of how California has moved to ban the chemical Chlorpyrifos – a pesticide proven to cause brain damage in children. This is after the chemical continues to have approval at the federal level. While the debate…
