Touch the Soil News #1413 (Feature photo – Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm – courtesy of Uncommon Ground) Called Uncommon Ground, restaurant owners Helen and Michael Cameron have put an organic farm on the roof-top of the restaurant. Uncommon Ground even offers internships to teach about urban farming, sustainable food and organics. You can read the…
Touch the Soil News #1412 (Feature photo – Aquaponic Farm – By Lili Stewart – ATSDR (part of the CDC) series of state-specific fact sheets. Bitmap versions have been seen on US Embassy websites. Direct PDF URL [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14801188) The U.S. agricultural sector plants around 90 million acres of soybeans every year –…
Positive Future #547 (Feature photo – Nissan Leaf – By Vauxford – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66139847) CleanTechnica journalist Zachary Shahan is one of the world’s top thinkers and writers on the EV movement. Shahan thinks that improving technology and declining costs of EV cars are moving us more rapidly to a point of…
Positive Future #546 (Feature photo – Solar Farm at Chattanooga Airport – courtesy of Chattanooga Airport) CleanTechnica journalist Anand Upadhyay brings us the story of the first airport in the U.S. to generate enough solar energy to offset its power use. To achieve this milestone, the airport has installed its own solar farms. While the…
Positive Future #545 (Feature photo – Protest against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Sturmvogel66) Energy Central journalist Elizabeth Ouzts brings news on the ongoing fight to stop the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline. While construction has been underway for over a year, opponents continue to raise…
Touch the Soil News #1411 (Feature photo – Agriculture – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us information about why we should pay more attention to agriculture in light of the risks of climate change. While some of the effects may be beneficial to agriculture, more of the effects are not beneficial to agriculture. You…
Touch the Soil News #1410 (Feature photo – Arugula – By Retama – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1803040) Chicago Tribune journalist Alexia Ruiz brings us the story of Jake Counne and the building of Backyard Fresh Farms. http://www.backyardfreshfarms.com/about-us/ Counne is convinced that his technology approach will allow him to grow food at an affordable…
Touch the Soil News #1409 (Feature photo – Abundant Greens Poster – courtesy of Abundant Greens Urban Farms) Abundant Greens Urban Farms is an urban plant stand located in the driveway of Jeanene Miller’s house in Ballard, Washington (Seattle metro area). http://www.abundantgreensurbanfarm.com/ K5 News in Seattle covers the story of how Jeanene grew here interest…
Positive Future #544 (Feature photo – Floating Solar – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – SolarWriter) EnergyCentral news portal explores new research that reveals subsidy-free solar is now less expensive than grid electricity in virtually every city across China. Obviously, the cost of taking out all the older systems and replacing them with…
Positive Future #543 (Feature photo – Switch Grass – Public Domain) Forbes brings news about a new breakthrough in recyclable dinner ware made from switchgrass. Genera Energy attracted a $118 million investment to produce the compostable dinner ware. You can read the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalieparletta/2019/08/07/company-secures-millions-to-make-compostable-food-service-products-from-grass/#3ce70f423c23
