Touch the Soil News #1577 (Feature photo – Urban Agriculture in Cuba – By Marcel601 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22740302) City Farmer News draws our attention to the importance of urban agriculture in Cuba. Cuba is striving to reduce its reliance on foreign food imports – totaling $1.6 billion a year. You can…
Touch the Soil News #1576 (Feature photo – Restaurant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Raphael Concorde) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how the best restaurants go beyond taste and opinion but to all the things that happen behind the scenes – sourcing, preparing, business practices and employees. You can watch the report…
Touch the Soil News #1575 (Feature photo – Mudchute Park & Farm – By Ewan Munro from London, UK – Mudchute Park and Farm, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, E14Uploaded by Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22371279) The Resident News journalist Kat Hopps, tells us about the most popular urban farms in London. Mind you, London…
Touch the Soil News #1574 (Feature photo – Romaine Lettuce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) When asset managers team up with pension funds, the sky is the limit. Recently one of the largest farm sales took place in Western Australia. A 54,812 acre farm was purchased for $97.62 million by Daybreak cropping. Daybreak cropping is…
Touch the Soil News #1573 (Feature photo – Pastured Pigs – CCA SA 4.0 International, Walter Jeffries) It is hard for sustainable animal farmers to compete with industrial meat. Over the years, Niman Ranch has worked to co-ordinate the distribution of hundreds of growers under one distribution and marketing banner – Niman Ranch. So, if…
Positive Future #705 (Feature photo – Wind Energy – By Leaflet – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5704247) Talk, Business & Politics news journalist Jeff Della Rosa brings us the story of how Southwester Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) is ready to put up $1 billion to buy into one of the largest wind farm projects…
Positive Future #706 (Feature photo – Sonnen Back-up Battery – CCA SA 4.0 International, Sonnen GmbH) Estimates are that 1 million California homes have solar panels, but only 19,000 have batteries to sustain them when the grid goes down. Now, Bloomberg New Energy Finance projects that in 2020 – largely in response to power company…
Positive Future #704 (Feature photo – Power Sub-Station – Public Domain) It is odd to think that capitalistic societies are not necessarily married to free-market economies. Anyone – a state, a city, a non-profit can engage in raising capital if it suits the ends of the people at stake. In a growing dissatisfaction with mega…
Positive Future #703 (Feature photo – Micro-Grid Power over a Parking Lot – Public Domain) Frequently we hear stories of how the power goes out (storms, fires, grid obsolescence). It hardly makes the news anymore until 1 million people or more are without power – and sometimes for days. EnergyCentral journalist Nevelyn Black brings us…
Touch the Soil News #1572 (Feature photo – Tinia Pina of Re-Nuble – courtesy of Re-Nuble) Yale Climate Connections brings us the story of Tinia Pina and her effort at recycling food waste for a better world and better economics. Tinia Pina is the CEO of Re-Nuble, a company the converts food waste into organic…
