Touch the Soil News #1659 (Feature Photo – Soil Cross Section – Courtesy of USDA) Civil Eats journalist Virginian Gewin brings us the story of an Internationally famous soil scientist. Rattan Lal takes us on a journey to helping the world by helping the soils. You can read the full story here: https://civileats.com/2020/07/15/the-world-food-prize-winner-says-soil-should-have-rights/
Touch the Soil News #1658 (Feature Photo – Thammasat University Rooftop Garden– Courtesy of Landprocess) The Bangkok Post brings us the story of Thammasat University in Thailand which opened Asia’s largest rooftop farm. At 75,000 square feet, it could well be the world’s largest rooftop farm. The farm raises rice, vegetables, and herbs. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1670 (Feature Photo – Soybeans – USDA Public Domain) TIAA – Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America – has about $1.1 trillion of assets under management – much of that represents the retirement savings of teachers, medical professionals, and governmental professions. TIAA has been the target of activists for its…
Positive Future #790 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Tomatoes – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, GFDL) Agritecture brings us the story of a new agricultural company called Arugga AI Farming that is looking to upgrade how controlled environment farming unfolds. One of their projects is to artificially pollinate greenhouse tomatoes. You can read the story here: https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/7/10/this-robot-uses-ai-to-pollinate-greenhouse-tomatoes
Positive Future #789 (Feature photo – Standing Rock Sioux Indian Logo – Public Domain) Perhaps the most high-profile Indian initiative in modern history is the efforts of several Sioux Indian Tribes to stop the Dakota Pipeline. After being intimidated while challenging the environmental assessment reports in 2017, the Indians recently had a victory. U.S. District…
Positive Future #788 (Feature photo – Compost – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Crystalclear) BioCycle journalist Karen Dawson brings us the story of new legislation in Washington obliging municipalities to use compost whenever possible. An emerging issue in all metropolitan areas is how to deal with garbage and waste with landfills that are being used up…
Positive Future #787 (Feature photo – School Garden for Teaching – CCA SA 4.0 International, Michael Barera) Foodtank brings us the story of FoodCorps. FoodCorps, a non-profit, is a national service program that educates students about healthy food. Now the FoodCorps is helping students learn about growing food at home. You can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1656 (Feature Photo – Solectrac Electric Tractor – Courtesy of Solectrac https://www.solectrac.com/cet) AFN News brings us the latest on the development of an electric tractor. Solectrac, located in San Francisco aims to help reduce the $12 billion U.S. farmers spend on fossil fuels each year. Solectrac is offering the new tractors…
Touch the Soil News #1655 (Feature Photo – Individual Depicting Anxiety – By Partridge, Rondal, 1917-, Photographer (NARA record: 8464464) – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16648146 Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/ ) brings us the story of a new report on how the Covid economic shutdown is leading to hunger, anxiety and worry.…
Positive Future #786 (Feature photo – Hemp Fiber Board – By Elke Wetzig (elya) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8383485) The Hemp Industries Association brings updates on the various building applications for hemp. The nation’s housing crisis of an extreme shortage of housing units – 2.5 million housing units short – means we can…
