Touch the Soil News #1381 (Feature photo – EcoFrost Solar Cooler – courtesy of Ecozen Solutions) Ecozen is an Indian company specializing in manufacturing solar power refrigerators for food crops. Around since 2012, the company recently received new funding to expand its work in India. India, a nation of 1.3 billion people and millions of…
Touch the Soil News #1380 (Feature photo – Farm Stand – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) explores how much of every food dollar we spend goes to American farmers. If you think farmers are getting rich, think again. You can watch Lempert’s report here:
Touch the Soil News #1379 (Feature photo – Victory Garden Poster 1945 – Public Domain) Boston University is one of the oldest universities in America, Founded in 1889, the university has over 4,000 academic staff and over 34,000 students. However, one teacher found it important to take his students on a tour of the Fenway…
Positive Future #512 (Feature photo – Rick Smith – Director of Operations at Project Eats – photo courtesy of Project Eats) Brooklyn Daily Eagle journalist Irene Archos covers the story of a woman who was writing on food security and then decided to actually get involved in solving food insecurity. Called Project Eats http://projecteats.org/about-us/), Lynda…
Touch the Soil News #1378 (Feature photo – Svalbard Global Seed Vault – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Miksu) As industrial agriculture continues its focus on a food plan of extremely limited diversity, the Global Seed Vault becomes more important as future generations may still have a chance at diverse food. Food…
Touch the Soil News #1377 (Feature photo – Food Sharing – Public Domain Thomas Cooper Gotch) Sharecity is a program of FoodTank. It seeks to log in all the places in the world where food is shared. It’s importance lies in laying down our competitive and aggressions towards ourselves and start on a more civil…
Touch the Soil News #1376 (Feature photo – Vertical Farming – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Growing greens in controlled environments is becoming big business. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in a handful of large vertical farm start-ups. The goal is to start suppling cities with fresh greens as opposed…
Touch the Soil News #1375 (Feature photo – World Bank Logo – Own work This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49079900) While we often think of armies as the source of aggression. However, our rapidly shrinking planet is pitting organized capital against indigenous people whose land ownership and recognition of historical…
Touch the Soil News #1374 (Feature photo – Food Forest – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Quercusrobur at English Wikipedia) Atlanta. Georgia is making news this summer as it opens its first free food forest to the public. You can not only get closer to nature on an outdoor walk, but you…
Positive Future #509 (Feature photo – United Way – courtesy of United Way) As one of the oldest non-profits in the U.S. The United Way still has almost 1,200 affiliated offices throughout the United States. Historically the organization just asked for money to help other charitable organizations in communities. However, United Way is directly involved…
