Touch the Soil News #1352 (Feature photo – City Beet Farm – courtesy of City Beet Farm) Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting Jonathan Hettinger reports on foreign-owned/controlled farmland in the United States. While the information is dated back to 2016 – the most recent available from federal records, foreigners own or control an amount of…
Positive Future #487 (Feature photo – Inside Grocery Store on Wheels – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license – Zache) In a world seeking to serve exclusive high ends, what about a world seeking to serve those on the edge of being excluded? Affordable Housing Finance Magazine…
Positive Future #486 (Feature photo – Wind Farm – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. – Leaflet) Scottish Power is building the largest battery ever in the UK to support its wind farms. Once the first battery is completed next year, plans are to build five others. When winds are high, excess power is…
Positive Future #485 (Feature photo – Homelessness in Oakland, California – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Grendelkhan) (This is a short editorial by Benjamin Gisin) Recently in a trip to the Bay Area, we passed numerous tent cities of homeless people huddled in between the vegetation along freeways. A friend who just…
Positive Future #484 (Feature photo – Highway Traffic – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Floydian) CleanTechnica Journalist Dr. Maximillian Holland has put together the electric vehicle projections by three major automakers. The results are that by Toyota’s own projections, it will fall materially behind VW and Tesla in the fully-electric vehicle market…
Touch the Soil News #1351 (Feature photo – Inside a Sainsbury’s Store Today –Public Domain – Jongleur 100) AgFunder journalist Richard Martyn-Hemphill explores an unusual report commissioned by Sainbury’s – the third largest grocer in the United Kingdom. One idea the report puts forth is current trends for bringing diversity back into the seeds and…
Touch the Soil News #1350 (Feature photo – Mixed Greens – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license – courtesy of DocteurCosmos) A sobering prediction is that more food will be consumed in the next 50 years than that consumed in the last 10,000 years combined. It is…
Positive Future #483 (Feature photo – Solar Power – public domain) Nearly two thirds of all new energy additions in 2018 were from renewable forms of energy generation according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. Of note is that there was 171 GW of new renewable energy added to the global capacity in 2018. Under…
Positive Future #482 (Feature photo – Electric Cargo Bike – GNU Free Documentation License) Forbes journalist Carlton Reid brings the story of how electric cargo bikes for city deliveries out performed gas powered trucks. A London Courier company says that electric cargo bikes were making 30 drops a day compared to truck vans with only…
Touch the Soil News #1349 (Feature photo – Fresh Vegetables – Public Domain) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) explores how we should approach food from what we need as opposed to what we love. Basic nutrition is never out of date:
