Touch the Soil News #1327 (Feature photo – Pig Farming –CCA SA 2.0 Generic) We’ve been covering the unnerving spread of African Swine Fever as it began uncontrollable spreading least year in China and Southeast Asia. Now, the military of Vietnam is being called out to cull (destroy and remove) pig herds that have been…
Positive Future #461 (Feature photo – Extinction Rebellion Poster – CCA 2.0 Generic) The words and phrases surrounding climate change have recently become more focused and urgent. A new concept is Extinction Rebellion. Extinction Rebellion began in 2018 in Great Britain. The British Members of Parliament recently declare climate as a national emergency. One must…
Touch the Soil News #1326 (Feature photo – Chickens –CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Interest in getting food more local is often tied to solving or getting away from an industrial farming problem. Farming chickens in factory settings that require low regular doses of antibiotics and animal cruelty issues surrounding small cages is certainly reason to…
Positive Future #460 (Feature photo – Subsidized Housing in New York City – Public Domain) Curbed Journalist Jeff Andrews brings us a scary story about what the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is contemplating. According to HUD, a new plan could result in evicting more than 55,000 children from their immigrant parents…
Positive Future #459 (Feature photo – Zipline Medical Drone – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica Journalist Jesper Berggreen brings us the story of how a small company in Rwanda, Africa has moved ahead of major industrial companies in first world nations to create a working drone delivery service for medical supplies. The technology employed is…
Positive Future #458 (Feature photo – Californian Flag – public domain) Inhabitat Journalist Lucienne Cross brings us the story of how California has moved to ban the chemical Chlorpyrifos – a pesticide proven to cause brain damage in children. This is after the chemical continues to have approval at the federal level. While the debate…
Positive Future #457 (Feature photo – Volkswagen ID.3 Electric – CCA SA 4.0 International) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings surprising news about Volkswagen’s new ID.3 electric car. When Volkswagen announced it was building 30,000 units of its ID.3 electric hatchback, more than 10,000 people put down the equivalent of $11,231 for a reservations. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1325 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Tomatoes –CCA SA 4.0 International) Estimates are that 10 percent of the fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. are left in the field because of insufficient numbers of workers or other challenges to getting workers into the fields. Robotics are rapidly entering the arena of…
Touch the Soil News #1324 (Feature photo – Dairy Products Are Seeing Price Surges – CCA SA 3.0) The globalization of trade has led to the globalization of food trade and food access. Shortages in one part of the world raise prices in other parts of the world. For this reason, following the FAO (Food…
Touch the Soil News #1323 (Feature photo – Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia –USDA Public Domain) What shows up in our grocery stores is having an increasing negative effect on the world’s rainforests and indigenous peoples. The demand for food and the opportunity for profit are forces driving rainforest destruction and externalization of indigenous people.…
