Positive Future #526 (Feature photo – Location Map of Ethiopia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Semhur) It used to be that 35 percent of the Ethiopian landscape was covered with trees – now there is only 4 percent of the landscape is covered by trees. In a national effort to start…
Touch the Soil News #1389 (Feature photo – Florida Citrus Groves – Public Domain) Gladstone Land – a Real Estate Investment Trust – just purchased 3,586 acres of farmland in Florida for $58 million. The farmland is presently used to retain water and stabilize water in the region. The state of Florida is funding the…
Positive Future #532 (Feature photo – Lightyear One Solar Car – By Lightyear01 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80320081) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings us more on the recently unveiled solar powered car called the Lightyear One. With an ability to charge from the power grid, the installed solar panels can add up to…
Touch the Soil News #1399 (Feature photo – Amazon Rainforest – By Neil Palmer/CIAT – Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28394053) Farmland grab follows the story of how global companies, in collaboration with corrupt political figures are dispossessing ancestral people from the land upon which they have lived for generations. Unfortunately, many of the dispossessed people…
Touch the Soil News #1398 (Feature photo – InFarm Growing Appliance – courtesy, InFarm) Bold Business news portal brings us insights to a German company called InFarm. The company builds high-tech growing appliances for home or grocery story. As a vertical farming enterprise, InFarm is helping other people with the equipment and know how to…
Touch the Soil News #1397 (Feature photo – Aquaponic Farm – Ryan GriffisCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. ) Bold Business news portal journalist Imelda Rabang covers the interesting growth of aquaponics farming. She covers 8 aquaponics enterprises and provides links for those who want more information. You can read the full story here:…
Positive Future #531 (Feature photo – Flag of Rhode Island – Public Domain) Rhode Island, with a population of little over 1 million people is the smallest state in the nation. However, this small state is going big time in suing 23 oil companies for damages the state has endured from climate change. CleanTechnica journalist…
Positive Future #530 (Feature photo – Flag of Kenya – Public Domain) GivePower just installed a solar-powered desalination plant in Kenya, Africa. The project desalinates almost 20,000 gallons of water from the Indian Ocean to produce clean drinkable water to some 25,000 people. As the world’s basic resources become more scarce – pushing up prices…
Positive Future #529 (Feature photo – Flooded Corn Field – Public Domain) Investorideas.com brings an interesting story. Insurance companies who pay out big for weather events due to global warming want coal to go away. Considering that farmers are often the first hit by extreme weather, should they follow suit? You can read the full…
Positive Future #528 (Feature photo – Houston Traffic – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Dhanix) Curbed journalist Patrick Sisson bring us news about how one of America’s mega-cities – Houston – plans to deal with car congestions. The plan is to spend approximately 280 million dollars per mile to widen or upgrade…
