Touch the Soil News #1395 (Feature photo – The Seal of the City of Danville, Virginia – By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19547129) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of the Danville, Virginia School District which purchased a food truck so that it could continue its lunch program during the summer. At a price of…
Touch the Soil News #1394 (Feature photo – Swarms of Locusts in Yemen – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Goldlocki) AgFunder journalist Richard Hemphill brings us news about the emerging company MetoMotion and news greenhouse robot that harvest tomatoes. MetoMotion, a small 2- person company just received $1.5 million in funding to…
Touch the Soil News #1393 (Feature photo – Location Map of Uzbekistan – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Nikki070) When 1.4 billion people line up at the dinner table and your country isn’t big enough to raise all the food, you have to go to other countries. But you can’t go to…
Touch the Soil News #1392 (Feature photo – Washed up Trash –Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license – Vaidehi Shah) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of geometrically growing volumes of trash from a geometrically growing fast food landscape in China. You can see the full report here:
Touch the Soil News #1391 (Feature photo – Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone – Public Domain NOAA) The NOAA reports that with this year’s flooding along the Mississippi River, there was more runoff from agricultural fields. The runoff ultimately ends up in the Gulf of Mexico on the outer regions of New Orleans. The increased…
Positive Future #527 (Feature photo – Porsche Fatcory – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license – Lain Cameron) There is little question that Tesla is the front-runner in electric car sales today. Porsche, on the other hand, has been working diligently to come out with a high-performance electric car. CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley reports on…
Touch the Soil News #1390 (Feature photo – Swarms of Locusts in Yemen – courtesy of the FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that swarms of locusts in bunches of up to 10 million can travel over 100 miles a day devouring everything in their path. The nations of Yemen,…
Touch the Soil News #1389 (Feature photo – Canal Dries up In Nebraska – Public Domain) A century-old irrigation tunnel in Wyoming has collapsed. Water has been halted to over 100,000 acres of crops in Wyoming and Nebraska. These farmers have all but had it as they have faced low grain prices, trade wars, flooding…
Positive Future #525 (Feature photo – Older version of the Tesla Powerwall – Public Domain) Tesla just announced its new energy storage solution called the Megapack. Tesla touts that they can now build battery storage facility for peak power needs capable of 1GWh of storage. Now that’s getting big. You can read more of the…
Positive Future #524 (Feature photo – Electric Cars Charging at a Solar Car Charging Station – Public Domain) Global economics have been flat for the past 4 years when it comes to gas car sales. While some parts of the world go up, other parts go down. Statista reports that global car sales have been…
