Touch the Soil News #1384 (Feature photo – Powell River Edible Garden Tour – courtesy of Powell River Food Security Project.) The small town of Powell River, along the west coast of British Columbia, Canada is the center of a metro area of around 17,000 people. Yet, the community is concerned about food security and…
Positive Future #520 (Feature photo – Lake Turkana Power Project – Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Andrew Owuor) CNN news brings the story of how Kenya, a poor African nation, is launching the largest wind farm in Africa. Called the Lake Turkana Wind Power project, the 310 megawatt facility will supply 13% of the…
Touch the Soil News #1383 (Feature photo – Bees – Public Domain) The Dutch city of Utrech – at the center of an urban area of some 650,000 people now has 316 bus stops with green roofs and some of them have beehives. This city plans to only have CO2 neutral buses by 2028 and…
Touch the Soil News #1382 (Feature photo – American mother in the great depression facing want for the basics – Dorothea Lang) Hardly a day goes by that some new company configuration of vertical agriculture, hydroponics, or aeroponics doesn’t leverage the idea that in the future we need to produce more food. Even proponents of…
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…
