Positive Future #816 (Feature photo – Air Pollution – National Archives) Investorideas.com brings us the latest on the good and bad of cities and their quality of air. Can you guess the worst and the best? Awareness is always the first step to solving any issue. You wouldn’t want your food garden to be a…
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Denmark – Electric Car Leader?
Positive Future #815 (Feature photo Tesla Model Y – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica journalist Jesper Berggreen brings us the story of how Denmark is steadily increasing the number of electrified cars on the road. For the first time, electrified cars had more sales than cars with diesel engines. You can read the story here: …
InFarm – Foreign Food Growing Tech in U.S. Grocery Stores
Positive Future #814 (Feature photo – Lettuce Greens – CCA SA 4.) International – Daniel Penfield) Crunchbase News journalist Marlize Van Romburgh brings us the story of Infarm. Infarm – based in Berlin, Germany – is becoming a leader in developing and putting vertical food growing appliances in grocery stores. The salad greens are grown…
Where is New U.S. Power Capacity Coming From?
Positive Future #816 (Feature photo – California Solar Power Farm – BLM Public Domain) CleanTechnica journalist Zachary Shahan brings us an encouraging story. New power from renewable sources (wind and solar) accounted for 63 percent of all new energy additions in the first half of 2020. There have been no new coal power additions since…
What Foods Are We Ordering for Home Delivery?
Touch the Soil News #1686 (Feature Photo – Grubhub Hat – courtesy of Grubhub) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us news of what foods are popular that people have been ordering for home delivery. Grubhub disclosed the trends from their actual sales, which are large enough to represent national trends. Grub Hub claims to have almost…
Robotaxi
Positive Future #812 (Feature photo – Apollo Robotaxi – courtesy of Baidu Apollo) CleanTechnica journalist Zachary Shahan brings us the story of Robotaxis in China. As we speak, there have been hundreds of thousand of miles logged by autonomous taxis in China over the past two years. One must ponder – Is China the global…
Raising the Bar of Human Friendly
Positive Future #811 (Feature photo – Proposed Bicycle and Walking Bridge in Heidelberg, Germany – Courtesy of Inhabitat) Inhabitat journalist Lucy Wang brings the story of a new generation of human friendly bridges. This story is about one particular bridge scheduled to be built in Heidelberg, Germany – a city with roots that go back…
Cattle Freighter Sunk at Sea
Positive Future #809 (Feature photo – A Livestock Carrier from Australia – CCA SA 2.0 Generic Tom Jervis) News is surfacing over the fate of 6,000 head of cattle and 43 crewmembers on a ship bound from New Zealand to China. The ship was caught in a typhoon near Japan and capsized. There seems to…
Farm-to-Consumer Shopping
Positive Future #808 (Feature photo – Avrom Farm Offerings – courtesy of Avrom Farm) Greenbiz journalist Jim Giles brings us the story of how people and farmers have connected in recent months. Essentially, the long-term movement of a different food system just took another notch up the ladder of expression. Giles covers the story of…
More Food for Uncertain Times – Rooftop Gardens
Positive Future #807 (Feature photo – The Seal of Bangkok – public domain) Global economic sanctions against non-essential workers does not protect the lives of non-essential workers. Those without jobs, healthcare or housing are a risk to health crisis from insufficient calories due to insufficient purchasing power. Complicating the issues is the retraction of global…
