Positive Future #843 (Feature photo – Pie – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, grabadonut) Inhabitat news portal journalist KC Morgan brings us insights to what plants are hitting greater popularity in efforts to cultivate beauty and better air. You can read the story here: https://inhabitat.com/the-top-10-houseplants-of-2020-and-whats-trending-for-2021/
Crop and Solar Farming Together
Positive Future #842 (Feature photo – Agrivoltaics – CCA SA 4.0 International) WhatsOne news portal brings more insights into what is called Agrivoltaics. Agrivoltaics is the sharing of land by farming and solar power. While the concept may not apply to all situations, it can be applicable to many. You can read the story here:…
Food Prices – Another Global Food Tremor Underway
Touch the Soil News #1719 (Feature Photo – Food – Public Domain) While it is true that Agriculture has been exempted from most economic lockdowns, in theory there are problems. Community gardens have been shut down and shipping ports have been constricted in the trade of food. However, it is not just the production of…
Is the Plantation – A Colonial Platform of Exploitation Still Alive?
Touch the Soil News #1718 (Feature Photo – Tea Plantations in Kenya – CCA SA 4.0 International, Wktoo) Farmlandgrab.org brings us a disturbing story of how land and labor have been exploited since the 1980s as Europeans brought mono-culture farming to Africa. The story is not a pretty one, but for the sake of understanding…
Farms not Arms – Peace Through Food Farms
Positive Future #841 (Feature photo – Combined Flags of the World – CCA SA 4.0 International, Baka888) Agritecture brings us the story of a group of designers, farmers, strategists, and agriculturalists that are building and envisioning food for all – especially those externalized by conflict. You can read the story here: https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/11/11/farms-not-arms-tackles-the-refugee-and-food-security-crises
Planned Economic Contractions – Leave People Vulnerable to Hunger
89 Year-Old Woman Bakes Pies for the Hungry
Positive Future #840 (Feature photo – Pie – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, grabadonut) Brightvibes news portal brings us the story of an 89 year old woman who was inspired to bake pies to help feed the large wave of food insecure people that rolled out of the public reaction to Covid. In the UK, covid-related…
The Value of Trees
Positive Future #839 (Feature photo – Rolling trees in portable wood containers to city locations – courtesy of Wanderbaumallee) Stuttgart, a German city of 640,000 people is at the heart of a much larger urban area of 2.8 million people. Like many cities, the absence of trees is one of the first signs of an…
Chinese Electric Car – Pushing the Limits of High Tech
The World’s Most Spectacular Trees
Positive Future #837 (Feature photo – Boabab Alley – courtesy of Facebook/Soulsoothing ) BrightVibes brings us the story of unusual trees, that stir the imagination and wonder of the universe we live in. You can see the pictures here: https://brightvibes.com/2042/en/20-of-the-most-spectacular-trees-from-around-the-world