Touch the Soil News #1709 (Feature Photo – Empty Restaurant – CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain) https://www.undercurrentnews.com/) Phil Lempert ( https://www.supermarketguru.com/ ) brings us the story of what is unfolding in the food business – to include what 4 million workers from 100,000 permanently closed restaurants are doing. You can watch the video here:
Touch the Soil News #1709 (Feature Photo – The Seal of Uganda – CCA SA 3.0 Unported By Sodacan This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18828670) Brightvibes brings us the story of disadvantage children in Uganda, a nation of 43 million people, many on the edge of calamity.…
Positive Future #833 (Feature photo – Tesla Mega Batteries – courtesy of Tesla ) Tesla is getting ready to ship an order of big batteries to Australia. It will ultimately be a connected series of batteries costing almost $62 million. This battery is only the first of a dozen big battery installations across the NSW…
Touch the Soil News #1708 (Feature Photo – Hydroponic Lettuce – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) Bright Farms has been making news. In January 2020, Bright Farms opened one of the world’s largest indoor greenhouse hydroponic operations. At 280,000 square feet (6.5 acres), the green house can produce 2 million pounds of fresh produce each year…
Positive Future #832 (Feature photo – Glass of Milk – courtesy of CCA 2.0 NIAID ) Inhabitat news portal brings us the story of creating what looks and tastes like milk out of plants. This is an initiative of the company Impossible Foods. The goal is to go beyond milks alternatives such as soy or…
Positive Future #831 (Feature photo – Overgrown Volkswagen – courtesy of https://www.reddit.com/user/BreakingDed/) BrightVibes journalist Fino Menezes shares with us a stunning collection of pictures that illustrate when nature takes over human structures. It provides real insight into how nature wastes nothing and its unlimited energy re-invigorates all that is left behind. You can see the…
Touch the Soil News #1707 (Feature Photo – Shrimp Aquaponics Setup – courtesy of Akualogix https://www.undercurrentnews.com/) Undercurrent News journalist Dan Gibson brings news of vertical aquaculture (for shrimp) in the city of Singapore. As an Island City-State, Singapore is constrained as to land availability and must import over 90 percent of its food. Given global…
Positive Future #830 (Feature photo – Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Leanne Davis) The Guardian News portal brings the story of a mega solar farm in the works. The project will cover an area of almost 50 square miles and employ 10,000 people to build. Expecting to generate 10 gigawatts of energy, some…
Touch the Soil News #1706 (Feature Photo – Satellite Image of the UAE. Notice how much of the nation is desert – courtesy of NASA, Public Domain) DesignBoom news portal brings the story of Polish architectural Firm MJZ (https://m-j-z.com/). Poland is an Eastern European nation of 38.5 million people that is also a member of…
Positive Future #829 (Feature photo – Tent City for Homeless – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Brightvibes journalist Fino Menezes brings us tips about our role with the homeless that can help – even as winter approaches. You can see all the ideas here: https://brightvibes.com/2015/en/top-10-ways-to-help-the-homeless-as-winter-approaches
